Ancestor Quotes
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Ancestor Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
The wisdom of our ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
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
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
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
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
Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship.
— E.L. Doctorow
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
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
That sure as fuck ain't no cow
— Scott Sigler
An ancestor from the 1530s would find little different in the 1930s. [Basilicata, Italy]
— Maria Martin
I feel the nights stretching awaythousands long behind the days
till they reach the darkness where
all of me is ancestor. — Annie Finch
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 humanbeing is to be a better ancestor. — John Perry Barlow
As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.
— Butterfly McQueen
