Our Ancestors Quotes
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The good old home habits of our ancestors are breaking up - it will be well if our virtue and our freedom do not follow them!
— Lydia Maria Francis Child
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past
— Dmitri Volkogonov
Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one.
— Tess Gerritsen
Our mental burka window is narrow because it didn't need to be any wider in order to assist our ancestors to survive.
— Richard Dawkins
Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse.
— Narendra Modi
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
— Alexander Crummell
You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Our spiritual ancestors have also given birth to us, and they, tol, continue to give birth to us.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
— Chief Seattle
Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.
— Roh Moo-hyun
Emotions are the gifts of our ancestors. We have them and so do other animals. We must never forget this.
— Marc Bekoff
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.
— Mikheil Saakashvili
No matter how evolved humans think they are, we still have the same flight-or-fight instincts of our caveman ancestors.
— Ernessa T. Carter
Her ancestors would fight for her spirit, but so too would the white devils who had come to rule. They had taken first our land and then our souls.
— Selina Siak Chin Yoke
Well, how'd we get to talking about our ancestors? People think we don't talk about anything else in Charleston.
— Josephine Pinckney
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
— Zubin Mehta
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
— Charles Lamb
It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.
— Ruth Reichl
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs ... of our barbarous ancestors.
— Guy De Maupassant
Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.
— Tristram Stuart
In France, when there was a war, we fought and our ancestors fought, though many had real reason to flee the Germans.
— Marion Marechal-Le Pen
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
— Frank Herbert
Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.
— Walidah Imarisha
We should not look down on our first ancestors.
— Alice Walker
The cold hand of the past emerges from the grave of our ancestors, grips us by the neck and directs our gaze towards a single future. We
— Yuval Noah Harari
Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.
— John Burnside
Our ancestors have a vested interest in our wellbeing and so are more easily motivated to intercede for us and also are more closely connected to us.
— Morgan Daimler
Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.
— Raymond Charles Barker
Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
— G.K. Chesterton
We southerners worship our ancestors.
— Amanda Stevens
Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
— Kailash Satyarthi
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[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
— Charles Dickens
The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things.
— Marcus J. Borg
We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.
— Sam Harris
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.
— Richard Leakey
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
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
— Claude Vorilhon
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
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
— Hannibal
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
— Frank Delaney
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.
— Thomas Jefferson
Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
— Horace Walpole
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
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
our ancestors have told stories of war, love, mysteries, and the miraculous performances of lower animals and inanimate objects.
— Lemuel Arthur Pittenger
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves ... sometimes even physically.
— Raquel Cepeda
We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.
— Kate Elliott
Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.
— Winona LaDuke
Honor to our ancestors.
— Tyrone Givens
We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
— Amilcar Cabral
The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children
— Philip Carr-Gomm
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
— James Nasmyth
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
— Edward Dahlberg
A walk through an old graveyard shows our ancestors often had more dead children than we have live ones.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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
kin, not ancestors. Our main difference from
— Ronald Wright
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
I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.
— Richard Leakey
Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
— Thomas Jefferson
