Ancestors Quotes
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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
— Chinua Achebe
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors aeons ago.
— Olaf Stapledon
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
— Henry David Thoreau
Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one.
— Tess Gerritsen
Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse.
— Narendra Modi
You are transformedinto one of the gypsy ancestors
we have never discussed. — Judith Ortiz Cofer
Colombians have been dealing with cocaine since your ancestors were running around Ireland with their bodies painted blue," Kingsley
— Robert B. Parker
I am something new, and in this old world steeped in legends, ancestors, and what came before, something new is something very special.
— Pierce Brown
The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy
— Jacob Zuma
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.
— L.M. Montgomery
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
— Alain De Botton
Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.
— Amit Kalantri
The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
— C.S. Lewis
When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
The wisdom of our ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
Her image of it came entirely from what she had heard. Or read. Or received unconsciously from distant ancestors. And yet it lived within her.
— Milan Kundera
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
— Ambrose Bierce
If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. — Edward Abbey
Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
I didn't care anymore what my ancestors would think. We were the Red Army and needed to eat.
— Dave Eggers
our ancestors have told stories of war, love, mysteries, and the miraculous performances of lower animals and inanimate objects.
— Lemuel Arthur Pittenger
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
— James Nasmyth
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
I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. Waiting and waiting and waiting . . .
— Laurie Halse Anderson
A walk through an old graveyard shows our ancestors often had more dead children than we have live ones.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
— Robert Anton Wilson
My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history.
— Raymond E. Feist
A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.
— Henry S. F. Cooper
Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
— Thomas Jefferson
Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
— Haile Selassie
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
— Laurence Overmire
I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.
— Richard Leakey
You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
— Christopher McDougall
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
— Alice Walker
Our ancestors pay the price for who we are
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If we do not fight to protect and preserve the freedom our ancestors died to obtain for us, our children will die to get it back.
— M.J. Leonard
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.
— Scott McCloud
kin, not ancestors. Our main difference from
— Ronald Wright
It's baffling how some people whose ancestors carved up the world with knives are now worried about defending their piece from the 'outsiders.
— Jonathan R. Miller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
— Helen Keller
I don't think many of us face the same sort of physical adventures our ancestors did, at least not on a daily basis.
— Jim Murphy
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.
— John O'Donohue
Like their ancestors, Louise and her parents klutzed away their days.
— Henrik Drescher
Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Our ancestors are our children; we peer through a hole in the wall and watch them play in their rooms, and they can't see us.
— Amin Maalouf
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
— Robert T. Bakker
Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.
— Swami Vivekananda
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
— Jonas Salk
If We Lose The Ways Of Our Ancestors, We Lose Ourselves.
— Gail Johnston
If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.
— Rolf Dobelli
The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.
— Denis Parsons Burkitt
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.
— Arthur Compton
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
— Charles Dudley Warner
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
— Frank Herbert
Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.
— Max Delbruck
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
— Laurence Overmire
Think how much happier the world might be if people sought approval for what they do from their children instead of their ancestors.
— Brian Ruckley
My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
— Bertrand Russell
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
— Horace Walpole
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
— Claude Vorilhon
He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors.
— Terry Pratchett
Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.
— Herbert A. Simon
A plant does not bear fruit without its stem.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
— Hannibal
Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures - they all have families and ancestors, just like people.
— Margaret Atwood
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
— Frank Delaney
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
