Ancestry quotes
36 ancestry quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Amistad
“- John Quincy Adams: I'm telling you, I'm preparing you, I suppose I'm explaining to you that the test ahead of us is an exceptionally difficult one.
- Cinque: We won't be going there alone.
- John Quincy Adams: Alone? Indeed not, no we have right at our side, we have righteousness at our side. We have Mr Baldwin over there.
- Cinque: I meant my...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Chariots of Fire
“Let us praise famous men and our fathers that begat us. All these men were honoured in their generations and were a glory in their days. We are here today to give thanks for the life of Harold Abrahams. To honour the legend. Now there are just two of us - young Aubrey Montague and myself - who can close our eyes and remember those few young men...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: First Knight
“This is the heart of Camelot, not these stones, not these timbers, these palaces and towers. Burn them all and Camelot lives on, because it lives in us. Camelot is a belief that we hold in our hearts.”
- From the movie: Watchmen
- From the movie: Cannibal Holocaust
“We weren't able to get anything out of the Yanomamo except for the wristwatch they gave us as a token of their gratitude to an ally, an ally they continue to fear and mistrust, so I've decided to try an experiment in psychology: to strip myself completely, clothes, weapons, dog tags, rings, everything, to become like them, naked and unfettered...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Harry Crumb: What's this? An egg?
- Eliot Draison: It's a pterodactyl egg. It's fossilized. It's 90 million years old. In the entire world, only two of these have ever been found.
- Harry Crumb: You know, that may be worth something.”- From the movie: Easy Money
“- Saleslady: May I help you?
- Monty Capuletti: No, we're just browsing.
- Saleslady: How long do you intend to browse?
- Monty Capuletti: That lady over there, you didn't ask her how long she's going to browse.
- Saleslady: You don't look like browsers.
- Nicky Cerone: Yeah, what do browsers look like?
- Monty Capuletti: Yeah, maybe I'm half...” (continue)(continue reading) “- Eowyn: I'm going to save you.
- Theoden: You already did... Eowyn. My body is broken. You have to let me go. I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed.”- From the movie: Assassin's Creed
“You're about to enter the Animus. What you're about to see, hear and feel are the memories of your ancestor, who has been dead for five hundred years.”
- From the movie: Hangfire
“- Billy: You know how to use that thing?
- Sheriff Ike Slayton: My mother was full-blooded Cherokee, it's in the genes.” - From the movie: The Zero Theorem
- From the movie: Water
“- Baxter: We don't get too many visitors here, except people whose ships have run aground.
- Eric: Almost the entire population is descended from shipwreck victims.
- Baxter: Don't underestimate your own contribution, Eric.” - From the movie: Rover Dangerfield
“- Eddie: Boy, that Count really got class.
- Rover Dangerfield: I guess that's my trouble, no class. I looked up my family tree, two dogs were using it!” - From the movie: Dangerous Beauty
“- Veronica Franco: My people are true citizens 700 years back.
- Marco Venier: A coat of arms does not an inheritance make.” - From the movie: Flirting with Disaster
“Why does he have to do the roots thing? Aren't we good enough parents?”
- From the movie: Jekyll & Hyde... Together Again
- Jekyll: How far into the muck of my beast ancestors have I descended?
[a "baa" is heard from offscreen. Jekyll turns and sees a sheep]
- Jekyll: That far? - From the movie: Love at First Bite
“- Dracula: You were born in the wrong time, Cindy Sondheim. In the other age things were simpler, less complicated. Do you know how many women had nervous breakdowns in the fourteenth century?
- Cindy Sondheim: No.
- Dracula: Three.” - From the movie: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
“She descended from a long line her mother listened to.”
- From the movie: The Last of the Mohicans
“Great Spirit, Maker of All Life. A warrior goes to you swift and straight as an arrow shot into the sun. Welcome him and let him take his place at the council fire of my people. He is Uncas, my son. Tell them to be patient and ask death for speed, for they are all there but one, I, Chingachgook, last of the Mohicans.”
- From the movie: The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
“- Will Stanton: Who are you?
- Merriman Lyon: We're the old ones. Well to tell the truth, we're neither young nor old, being outside time. You're the last of us to be born. You are the Sign Seeker.” - From the movie: Dances with Wolves
“Our country is all that we have, and we will fight to keep it.”
- From the movie: Ernest Goes to Camp
“You will have great wealth if you let these men own the land. He says, who can own a tree? Who can own a rock? Only the Great Spirit. Mister Black, these grounds are the homes to our ancient Indian ceremonial grounds, my grandfather and I are the last of our tribe.”
- From the movie: The Golden Child
- From the movie: Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
“We can all learn from our older generations. I remember I learned a lot from my grandmother, specifically, how to kill chickens.”
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