American Ancestry

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or ancestry:

“Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)