Adam Clarke Quotes

From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.

We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans.

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

What if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small scrape of cells from the inside of anyone's cheek, the science of genetics can even prove it.

If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through DNA.

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

My surname Volkanovski comes from my father's side, so I have many Macedonian supporters and I really appreciate it.

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that.

I am the son of Punjab-da-puttar after all.

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

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

We are all Africans under the skin.

We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin-who they are. God tells man who he is. God tells us that He created man in His image. So man is something wonderful.

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion.