Ancestry Quotes

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.

I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of ...

There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, bu...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

All modern humans are related to what scientists call "Mitochondrial Eve." This refers to our common...

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like an...

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king am...

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

I am he As you are me And we are all together.

As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.

All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.

My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground o...

The family is the American fascism.

The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting t...

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a...

Our names were made for us in another century.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acor...

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port

Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is littl...