“Our ancestors move along with us, in underground rivers and springs too deep for chaos to reach.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.” — Liam Callanan Copy Share Image
“Our stories make us who we are. And each story has its own purpose and its own reward. Each story rings true… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
As a nation, a society, a family and an individual, we must be grateful to our great ancestors who dedicated their lives… — Master Jin Kwon Copy Share Image
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech was arranged by ancestors who couldn't possibly have had an idea of what-all was going to be said. — Star Smithtown New York Copy Share Image
I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“The ancient bones of our ancestors are like the roots of a great tree, reminding us to stay firmly grounded in our… — Raigon Stanley Copy Share Image
You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We get stressed out now by having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or by losing… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical… — Paul Hindemith Copy Share Image
The fancy dance is a celebration of each other, and a celebration of life. The one thing I always heard was: we… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
“It is so awkward that how our ancestors wasted their whole life and never thought about education or making difference for the… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I am a Malayali. My ancestors are from Tamil Nadu, but they settled in Irinjalakuda. — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Dychwelyd i wlad eich hynafiaid; gwaed yn galw i waed. Return to the land of your fathers; blood calls to blood.” — Horton Deakins Copy Share Image
I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
I think I grew up after years and years of being criticized for my Korean being bad and like disappointing my ancestors… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I feel like I am not only my ancestors' wildest dreams but also my wildest dreams. Little-kid me is like, 'Girl, that's… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
“Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
