Ancestral Lineage Quotes

Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that.

My dad's Macedonian, mum Greek... so for as long as I can remember, my uncles have talked about our warrior blood.

I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major.

Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.

I've been really inspired by my roots - my ancestors and Irish history.

We all have to consciously make efforts to identify our roots and nurture them.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

Maybe everyone lives forever. Or maybe, like in the animated movie 'Coco,' only those whose stories get told by the living definitely do. It takes a story worth telling.

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.

Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.

It's weird, the evolution of a person. You understand yourself, you understand your surroundings. Then, when you understand who came before you, once you understand that about yourself and the energy that you came to this planet with, you understand more about yourself.

In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts.

Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

My father, who is deeply spiritual and religious, always stressed that my siblings and I remain true to our Indian roots.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

I come from a long line of generations!