Miriam Margolyes Quotes

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

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

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

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

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

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.

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

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

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.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

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

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.

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

I don't know much about my biological background.

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 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 dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington.

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.

Many Americans have a traitor lurking somewhere in their family tree.