Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

People ask me 'Are you copying your dad?' It is in my blood. I have got royal blood coursing through my veins. I can't help myself doing what my father did.

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

I am a combination of my entire family.

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

For me, understanding your heritage and wanting to leave a legacy was always important to me.

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

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

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

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.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

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

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

All of our ancestors came from somewhere.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

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.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

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

I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.