Cordell Hull Quotes

Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.

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

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

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

What is the use of your pedigrees?

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

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

I love the whole idea of family and what gets left behind when you are gone. I'm very proud of my children; I was one of seven.

People throw legacy and dynasty around a bit too much.

I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

You can't run from your roots.

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

Oh no, I am descended from the important Carters.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

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.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!