Ancestry Quotes - Page 5

• Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

  Herman Melville

  Grief, Joy, Posterity

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.464, Northwestern University Press

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• Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

  FM-2030

  Past, Ethnicity, Years

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• You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

  Henry Louis Gates

  White, Upset, Black

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• You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Son, Pioneers, Ease

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

  Hallie Flanagan

  People, Want, Enough

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• If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

  Angela Merkel

  Pride, Roots, Degrees

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
  [Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.]

  Sallust

  Light, Quality, Bad Qualities

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• I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Independent, Firsts, Sides

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

  William Tyler

  Pride, Men, Class

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• It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Earth, Essentials, Details

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 136, 1949.

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• It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

  Tahir Shah

  Middle East, Impossible, Importance

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• There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.

  Anne Waldman

  Blood, America, Identity

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

  Children, Powerful, Home

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• Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get really interested in ancestry and become very good at what was just a hobby. But I think that we shouldn't wait quite that long to develop and look for those parallel interests of ours and not sometimes see them as frivolous and take them a little more seriously, and spend some time and energy and maybe even capital in pursuing them.

  Darold Treffert

  Thinking, Roots, Long

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  England, Muse, Born

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.

  Elliott Sober

  Skulls, Order, Confusing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Technology, Dna, Tree

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was the conquerers' side, the side of the French Jesuit missionaries that came to live in what is now Ontario.

  Joseph Boyden

  Blood, Ontario, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to me, what they symbolize, how I'm still connected to them and how much they are a part of my ancestry, both musical and real.

  Rosanne Cash

  Real, Heart, People

  Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.

  Abigail Solomon-Godeau

  Photography, Art, Long

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• Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

  Louis L'Amour

  Important, Done

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.290, Bantam

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• Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe is a single multiform energetic unfolding of matter, mind, intelligence and life.

  Brian Swimme

  Stars, Mind, Matter

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• Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or social position by reference to the Christian faith.

  Gilles Kepel

  Christian, Political, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Heart, Race

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• The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?

  Philip Kitcher

  Theory Of Evolution, Doe, Should

  Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press

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