Christopher Eccleston Quotes

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

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

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.

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

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

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

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

The most important thing in life is to know where you come from, and I know where I come from.

My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.

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.

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

My family's journey is something I am very proud of - in front of me, behind me and every part.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

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

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.

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

I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.

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

A lot of my material was based on my family.

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.

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

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