George R. R. Martin Quotes

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.

I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.

You can properly call him a son of anything you please.

Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

I am a combination of my entire family.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

I was so hungry to learn my history, to really know who I was.

For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest.

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few generations.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

Being the U.S. champion is a big deal for me. Knowing that my ancestors built this country, it's kind of like, the Irish were treated badly in this country for a long time, with a lot of tacky Irish stereotypes, so to me, it's kind of like a bragging right.

I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.

The Russell side of my family is a clan with some serious genetics.

You can't ever make assumptions about a family tree.

I've got royal blood coursing through my veins and if the boxing bug is 'something I've inherited through the family bloodline, I'm proud of my genes.

My lineage is partially Irish.

Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.

I'm very proud of my heritage and the blood that runs through my veins. I take a lot of strength from that.

My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But I lose track at that point.

I come from a long line of shorties.

Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I come from. I understand that my last name is Kirby, that I was born in London, third-generation Jamaican, and at some point along the line, that name was changed. I didn't know my history past my grandparents.

I'm a guy who was born in Cincinnati and whose entire family except for my mother still lives in Cincinnati - my grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, you name it.

History is very much bound up in family experience.