Matt Bevin Quotes

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

My dad's family comes from the North, and my mother's family comes from somewhere around Carmarthenshire.

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

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

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.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

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.

There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio.

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

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

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

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.

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.

My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr.

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.

When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.

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

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

I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.