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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

Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children. — Carl Sagan

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

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us. — Liam Callanan

The power of your ancestors and the magic of the cosmos is in your DNA — Jan Porter

Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical Man. 'Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms. — H.G.Wells

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 transformed
into 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

If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods. — Dan Brown

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

Then Mattie journeyed away from her home toward freedom and her family, leaving behind the bones of generations of her ancestors and their captors — Laila Ibrahim

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

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

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

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure. — Brendan Fraser

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

Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked. — Luisah Teish

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

The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments. — Lynn Cullen

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

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

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

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly

Their skin hung loose over their bodies like suits they had inherited from larger ancestors, with the trousers ridiculously baggy. — Roald Dahl

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

I am out listening for the words, for the breath of my ancestors — Joyce Dyer

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

She could feel the common blood song inside the place, the chorus of ancestors moving about in familiar constellations. — Ari Berk

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

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. — Harper Lee

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

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children. — Elif Shafak

To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. — Frank Delaney

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. — David Mitchell

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

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. — E.W. Howe

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

All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners. — Edward Ball

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

Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance. — S.J. Kincaid

If We Lose The Ways Of Our Ancestors, We Lose Ourselves. — Gail Johnston

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. — Sallust

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

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

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

Lima beans, watermelons, potatoes, eggplants, and cabbages are among the many other familiar crops whose wild ancestors were bitter or poisonous, and — Jared Diamond

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

And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. — Thomas Hardy