Richard Dawkins Quotes

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

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

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

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

It is important to know where you come from.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

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

You can't run from your roots.

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.

You want to try to find your heritage.

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

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

I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

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

I think that our comfort is in our history.

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.

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few generations.

You can't really run from your roots.

I always had my roots in the past.

When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.