Ancestor Quotes

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.

— Toni Morrison

“our most recent common ancestor—a worm-like creature”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

— Pietro Metastasio

I am not my self, I am the result of all my ancestors.

— Santiago Martinez Delgado

Are we being good ancestors?

— Jonas Salk

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

— Herbert Agar

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

— Lynne Tillman

We must strive to become good ancestors.

— Ralph Nader

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

— Robert Breault

Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.

— Raymond Charles Barker

“We should have known much more than our ancestors. But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.”

— Toba Beta

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

— Horace Walpole

We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates

— Robert Moss

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

— Anonymous

Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.

— Karen Lord

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.

— Butterfly McQueen

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child…

— Joy Harjo

I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and…

— Herbert Hoover

“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor,…

— Norman F. Cantor

Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these…

— Clarence Darrow

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin…

— Sam Francis

I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud…

— Swami Vivekananda

I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to…

— Sid Fleischman

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for…

— Henry Louis Gates

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet,…

— Bill Bryson

My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which…

— Kurt Vonnegut

For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or…

— Malcolm X

Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms…

— Empress Dowager Cixi

And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against…

— Alan Moore

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric…

— Carl Sagan

If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems…

— Adam Gollner

Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result…

— Catherynne M. Valente

A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms…

— Suzy Kassem

Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I…

— Dave Hunt

When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages…

— Herman Melville

To be treaty person means coexist in peace and with mutual respect. That's at the core of these treaties. They intended for…

— Perry Bellegarde