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

~Alex Haley

Topics: About Ancestry Earth Every Family Lineage Person Start Talking You

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Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Adult Ancestry Become Cherokee Part Tradition You

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I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.

~Allegra Huston

Topics: American Ancestry Dash English Irish Italian Mother Myself Part Pinch See Thrown I See

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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

Topics: Also American Ancestry Certain Certain Degree Common Degree Every Fact Fifth German Her His Indeed Ourselves Perhaps Points Pride Remind Rightly Roots Safely Say Share Today

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Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.

~Cass Sunstein

Topics: Ancestry Artist Children Current Danger Decency Enemies Everywhere Finding Grave He Immigrants Judges Losing Mexican More Parents Performance President Sense Than Those Trump War Whether

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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

Topics: Ancestry Available Back Being Came Could First Material Means Mine Our Planet Trace Were Yours

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I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

~Diana Quick

Topics: About Ancestry Been Blood Cast Discovered Exotic Fact Family Father Greeks Gypsies Had Indian No Wonder Often Revolutionaries Roles Russian Side Talked Wonder

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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

Topics: America American American Values Ancestry Believe Born Chinese Freedom Liberties Our Proud Raised Really System Values I Was Born

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