“Your existence is a testament to the body wisdom of your ancestors.” — Dalia Kinsey Copy Share Image
“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.” — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“i never knew anyone so relentless to his ancestors - you make up for your soapiness toward the living” — E.M.Forster Copy Share Image
My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham. — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
“Your people have lost the vision and vitality of your ancestors (73).” — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“One fifth of people alive a millennium ago in Europe are the ancestors of no one alive today. Their lines of descent… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“So they say things like, “Go back to your country,” as if their Irish ancestors never walked through Ellis Island.” — Dominique Christina Ashaheed Copy Share Image
I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I think often about my ancestors who struggled for freedom, and as I think of those giants and their broad shoulders, I… — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that the KKK still exists, especially knowing all my ancestors have been through. I feel like… — Normani Kordei Copy Share Image
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“Each family has a history we pass on to each successive generation. We bear the glories and the burdens of our name,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“To me, the word wisdom means ancient knowledge. It’s the kind of knowledge you not only see but feel when you look… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
There is beauty in our roots. Sometimes we think our roots are shameful, and people tell you that you're no good or… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Our ancestors are looking for us even if we're not looking for them. And by our ancestors I mean our bloodlines and… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man.” — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors. — William Kean Seymour Copy Share Image
Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive. — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
In a sense, all Americans are battle-born. Our ancestors came here for something better. — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
“All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.” — Lucy Knisley Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors dreamed us into being. The least we can do is listen when the earth speaks back.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“Ancestors from all times have shared their essence with you. Accept the light and let go of the rest.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“In America, your ancestors don't matter so much. You're just you .” — Lensey Namioka Copy Share Image
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo. — Jessica Collins Copy Share Image
