Ancestry quotes

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood – certainly not German blood.

My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.