William Butler Yeats Quotes

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

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.

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.

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

My son was named after my father, whose name was Ranbir Raj Kapoor.

I come from a long line of generations!

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

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

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

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

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

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

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

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.

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

My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr.

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

We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.