135 Quotes About Ancestry

So a dog's value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines - the particular dogs in their ancestry - and all the information in the file cabinets. Because the files, with their photographs, measurements, notes, charts, cross-references, and scores, told the STORY of the dog - what a MEANT as his father put it.

Some people accept the fates set for them in ancestryOthers seek to forge their own destinies in the smithy of the future.

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

The fountain of youth resides in our memory. You will never outlive your shadow.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won’t be reversed: by now the Jonathan’s as much an American as I am.

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.