135 Quotes About Ancestry

Some of us are given more time on this Earth than others, but none of us should ever take the gift of life for granted. If we strive to be the best we can be, committing ourselves to what is right and true, while helping others along the way, then we will leave our own story worth the telling and be a shining example for our children and our grandchildren and all those great, great, great, great grandchildren in those far off times to come.

My family tree has many branches, both living and dead... but all equally important. I cherish the memories that make its roots run deep.

Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.

A person in search of his ancestors naturally likes to believe the best of them, and the best in terms of contemporary standards. Where genealogical facts are few, and these located in the remote past, reconstruction of family history is often more imaginative than correct.

We do not brag about ancestors that were not great

Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there's nothing more dangerous than when that rage is activated.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

It is often the way of the world that goodness is often repaid with badness.

The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.