Alex Kurtzman Quotes

I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family.

As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.

Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

A lot of my material was based on my family.

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.

You can properly call him a son of anything you please.

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

I am my mother's daughter.