Bill Drayton Quotes

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

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

I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

I am not myself, I am the result of all my ancestors.

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

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I'm a product of this visionary mother and father.

I am a product of my father's work.

The Carter family history means a lot to me.

My dad does a good job of reminding me where I came from.

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

If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a lot of traveling, but mostly I'm glad I'm his son because he's such a good man.

Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family.

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.

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

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

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.

My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.

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

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

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.

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