Les Dawson Quotes

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

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

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

Oh no, I am descended from the important Carters.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

The Carter family history means a lot to me.

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

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

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

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

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

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

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

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington.

I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family.

My dad's family comes from the North, and my mother's family comes from somewhere around Carmarthenshire.