Ancestors Quotes · Page 4

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

— Anonymous

“You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.”

— Toba Beta

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

— Russell Means

“I am a prayer of my ancestors.”

— VD

The wisdom of our ancestors.

— Edmund Burke

“He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

The wealth of our country was based on free labour, and that free labour was African labour - our ancestors.

— Paterson Joseph

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

— Robert Moss

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

— Peter R. Grant

I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Anonymous

“I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.”

— Francisco X. Alarcón

I love being an African American female! I love my skin tone & learning about my ancestors.

— Anonymous

Being African American and Jewish, I have plenty of ancestors and family members that I can look to for strength and, more…

— Cameron Boyce

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from…

— Trevor McDonald

Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall…

— F. Sionil Jose

Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for…

— Carl Sagan

“But we are never alone. We bring with us the spirits of our ancestors. We are haunted by their demons and protected…

— William Ritter

“So our ancestors remembered every bad thing that happened and spent much of their lives anticipating more trouble, and this is the…

— Matt Lewis

Science offers us the possibility of understanding natural rhythms and events that must have seemed like the work of angry and unpredictable…

— Alice Roberts

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

— Sallust

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires,…

— C. S. Lewis

So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to…

— Randall Kennedy

Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives…

— Carl Jung

“[Arren] was proud of his lineage, but thought of himself as an heir of princes, one of the House of Enlad. Morred,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“You were traveling through the bloodline and entering each of your ancestors' minds. You know things about all of us now." Lily…

— Kirsten Miller

“we need a mass of ancestors at our backs as ballast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without…

— Lauren Groff

“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness;…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant…

— Greg Iles

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

— Tad Williams

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

— Moliere

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

— Mark Pagel

Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.

— Li Lu

Our ancestors grew a lot of millets and incorporated them in their diet.

— Chef Damu

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

— Sonia Sanchez

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.

— William Shakespeare

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

— Plutarch

“I am the product of all the ancestors getting together and deciding these stories need to be told”

— Rupi Kaur