#ancestry

I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties. ↗

— Gary Locke

#american #american values #ancestry #believe #born

Through my writing, I learned my Life Lessons from all the experiences in my past, good and bad. Letting go of the drama we create for ourselves is the biggest gift we can ever receive. ↗

— KoKo Nervelli

#inspirational #overcome-obstacles #attitude

When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hearing. I had to, or I never would have made it past the first letter. If I stopped to think about my Grandpa writing to my Grandma, knowing how much he loved her and how many years he spent without her after her death, I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it through just one letter without an onslaught of tears. And it was Grandpa, a voice I knew so well. One that I miss terribly. ↗

— Kara Martinelli

#friendship #longing #love #wwii-history #death

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ancestry #dreamed #ever #helping #i

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. ↗

— Alex Haley

#about #ancestry #earth #every #lineage

By ancestry, I was born to rule. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#born #i #i was born #rule

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#american #ancestry #certain #certain degree #common

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #ancestry #black #brazil #drop

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#available #back #being #came #could

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty. ↗

— Paul Harris

#concerned #cradle #deed #descendants #england