Jack Kerouac Quotes

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

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

People like to trace their ancestry.

I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family.

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

A lot of my material was based on my family.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.

The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

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

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.

My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.