Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history.

My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.

Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.

I am a combination of my entire family.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.

My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

I am not myself, I am the result of all my ancestors.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

'Frances' is a longtime family name on my dad's side. My grandfather, father, brother, and my daughter's name is Frances.

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

And I'm so grateful to have that family name and continue my family's legacy, but I'm also very excited to create my own.

I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

I know where I come from and what my roots are.

I have goals, I have my purpose. I want to build upon what my grandpa and my dad and my stepdad did in the past.

There's been a ham in every generation of our family.