Hannah Kent Quotes

You can properly call him a son of anything you please.

Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.

As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.

You can't run from your roots.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

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

My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was a direct descendant of Sir Christopher Wren.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

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

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

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

There is a strong propensity in the human mind to trace up our ancestry as to high and as remote a source as possible; and if our pride and our ambition cannot be gratified by a real statement of facts, fable is substituted for truth, and the imagination is taxed to supply the deficiency.

All of our ancestors came from somewhere.

It is important to know where you come from.

People like to trace their ancestry.

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

I come from a family of storytellers.

My dad's Australian.

You can't really run from your roots.

I am proud of my family.

Greek blood courses through me.