Family Heritage Quotes

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.

My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.

My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.

All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.

My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

My Uncle Nissim studied Kabbalah. Just before he died, he gave this tiny book, its pages yellow with age. He said it had special powers. I had a feeling that the book helped to keep me safe. My daughter is called Nissim after him.

My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.

My mother was a midwife and a herbalist, so we would go on these long walks, looking for yarrow or rosehips or whatever she needed to make her tinctures.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

I'm the last in the line of Russells and Chamberlains.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.