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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn. — Marian Wright Edelman

I live alone," Knud said, "and I work alone, but I am never truly alone. I do my ancestor's work. I live the entire history of my country and people. — Maureen Johnson

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. — Laurence J. Peter

Every action has an ancestor of a thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. — Douglas Alexander

Anyone - your daddy or mine, your ancestor or mine, your god or mine - who bays for blood of "infidels" is an a***ole. And non-divine. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors. — Ibn Khaldun

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are. — Marian Wright Edelman

What kind of ethical philosophy is it that condemns every child, even before it is born, to inherit the sin of a remote ancestor? Augustine, — Richard Dawkins

The ancestor to every action is a thought." As — Wayne W. Dyer

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought. — Eknath Easwaran

Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance. — Justin Cronin

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. — Moliere

An oak tree and I are made of the same stuff. If you go far enough back, we have a common ancestor. The — Carl Sagan

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule. — Lewis Thomas

When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor. — Maya Tiwari

Peer pressure is nothing compared
to ancestor pressure. — Pickles

The wisdom of our ancestors. — Edmund Burke

The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched. — E. O. Wilson

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors. — Mau Piailug

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully
as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. — Edward Abbey

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. — Francis Bacon

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe. — Vanna Bonta

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor. — Peter R. Grant

The ancestor of every action is a thought — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend! — Daniel J. Levitin

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs ... of our barbarous ancestors. — Guy De Maupassant

Believe something is impossible,' said his ancestor calmly, 'and you will surely fail. But believe in yourself and you can do anything. — S.F. Said

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor! — George Takei

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank. — Winona LaDuke

People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. — Maxine Hong Kingston

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?' — Jonas Salk

We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact. — Luisah Teish

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead. — Lynne Tillman

We should have known much more than our ancestors.
But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them. — Toba Beta

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor. — John McCarthy

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus. — Sy Montgomery

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope. — Toni Morrison

When two strangers in a tribal society want to trade, they will often establish trust by appealing to a common god, mythical ancestor or totem animal. — Yuval Noah Harari

We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates — Robert Moss

As I am from Hawai'i, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers. — Nainoa Thompson

We do not brag about ancestors that were not great — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am not my self, I am the result of all my ancestors. — Santiago Martinez Delgado

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors. — Herbert Agar

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. — Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. — Jonas Salk

I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us — Phonte

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother. — Agnes Varda

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. — Edmund Burke

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. — Francis Herbert Hedge

I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop. — Thomas Huxley

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts — Joy Harjo

Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship. — E.L. Doctorow

If we go far enough back, any two people on Earth have a common ancestor. — Carl Sagan

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors. — Horace Walpole

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance. — A.C. Grayling

Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. Then steadily and consistently work to provide ordinances in the temple for your own ancestors. — Richard G. Scott

We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start. — Matthew D. Miller

I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo. — Jessica Collins

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant. — Nikos Kazantzakis

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it. — Gregory Maguire

That sure as fuck ain't no cow — Scott Sigler

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. — Horace

An ancestor from the 1530s would find little different in the 1930s. [Basilicata, Italy] — Maria Martin

I feel the nights stretching away
thousands long behind the days
till they reach the darkness where
all of me is ancestor. — Annie Finch

Manism (ancestor cults) - but it was not as concerned — Reza Aslan

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn. — Amilcar Cabral

Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors. - Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works — Daniel C. Dennett

We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god. — Ashraf Barhom

the first responsibility of a human
being is to be a better ancestor. — John Perry Barlow

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once. — Richard Dawkins

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. — Butterfly McQueen

Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother. — Yuval Noah Harari

A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil ... not the cross. — Greg Graffin