I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started… — Goran Dragic Copy Share Image
Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served several purposes: killing contaminants, softening the flesh, and… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one.” — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
“Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Our African ancestors were the first to engage in breathing. By that logic, I think by breathing today, we are engaging in… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I don’t think my journey has to be harrowing to be important. Simply doing the tasks of the day is enough. Such… — Mike Ericksen Copy Share Image
“And when, at last, … I stood in London with ten pounds in my hand - five of which I promptly lost… — P.L. Travers Copy Share Image
In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We are a country where the ancestors of slaves and newcomers escaping tyranny and violence can rise to the highest positions in… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I'm especially honored that The Black Gents will debut Off-Broadway and pay tribute to The Tuskegee Airmen and other ancestors of that… — Lamman Rucker Copy Share Image
“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles. One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and… — Gemma B. Benton Copy Share Image
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around… — Mohamed Al-Fayed Copy Share Image
“My family tree has many branches, both living and dead... but all equally important. I cherish the memories that make its roots… — Lynda I Fisher Copy Share Image
I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
“We are free falling backward through time, reincarnating ourselves from our past, reflecting the chaotic energy of the present.” — Lorin Morgan-Richards Copy Share Image
We are the ancestors of our grandchildren's children. We look after them, just as our ancestors look after us. We aren't here… — Roy Sesana Copy Share Image
The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
In China there is a holiday around the death of your ancestors where everyone goes to the cemetery. It's a celebratory thing.… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Well, how'd we get to talking about our ancestors? People think we don't talk about anything else in Charleston. — Josephine Pinckney Copy Share Image
I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
