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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
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
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
There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.
— James Redfield
You are transformedinto one of the gypsy ancestors
we have never discussed. — Judith Ortiz Cofer
The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy
— Jacob Zuma
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
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
my ancestors didn't fight there way to the top of the food chain to look down and see me eating leaves
— Leslie Connor
Every footprint leaves its mark in the sands of life. Step by step, each one tells a story.Beat by beat, echo voices of the ancestors
— Kokomon Clottey
We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.
— Mikheil Saakashvili
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
Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors. - Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
— Daniel C. Dennett
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
— Alice Walker
You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.
— Toba Beta
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
The rhyme pad was a spell book - it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Stars blazed above Hollyleaf 's head, reminding her that the spirits of her ancestors were watching over her.
— Erin Hunter
I feel the nights stretching awaythousands long behind the days
till they reach the darkness where
all of me is ancestor. — Annie Finch
Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.
— Laurence Overmire
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
— Carl D. Anderson
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves ... sometimes even physically.
— Raquel Cepeda
My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.
— Neon Hitch
Know the history of the great ancestors.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What if that child survived, and the lineage continues to this day, meaning the ancestors of Christ are walking among us?
— Larry Brooks
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
— Edward Dahlberg
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
— Henry Louis Gates
We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
— James Hillman
He had all these books, decades of reading history, the company of ancestors she could only imagine.
— Hugh Howey
How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.
— Fulton J. Sheen
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil ... not the cross.
— Greg Graffin
I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.
— Gladys Mitchell
As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.
— Butterfly McQueen
WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE WAYS OF YOUR ANCESTORS YOU WILL NEVER BE LOST.LET YOUR ANCESTORS BE YOUR GUIDING LIGHT. — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.
— Winona LaDuke
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
Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.
— Max Delbruck
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
— Frank Delaney
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
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
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
Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
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
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
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
If We Lose The Ways Of Our Ancestors, We Lose Ourselves.
— Gail Johnston
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
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
— Frank Herbert
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
— Laurence Overmire
our ancestors have told stories of war, love, mysteries, and the miraculous performances of lower animals and inanimate objects.
— Lemuel Arthur Pittenger
I didn't care anymore what my ancestors would think. We were the Red Army and needed to eat.
— Dave Eggers
A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.
— Henry S. F. Cooper
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
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
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
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.
— Scott McCloud
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
You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
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
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
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
— Laurence Overmire
