DeWitt Clinton Quotes

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.

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.

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

Greek blood courses through me.

You want to try to find your heritage.

Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.

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

The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.

People like to trace their ancestry.

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

There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.

One of the biggest things that I took from playing Kunta Kinte was where his strength came from in knowing where he was from.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

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

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.

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

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

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

I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

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.