i never knew anyone so relentless to his ancestors - you…

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

— Alice Walker

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

— Cyril Connolly

Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts,…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

“Each of us is the product of history. Our lives today are evidence that our ancestors survived unbelievable odds stretching back to prehistory. The…

— Laura Wheldon

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

— Sonia Sanchez

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

— Toba Beta

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them…

— Anonymous

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;…

— Ludwig von Mises

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we…

— Gary Hamel

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,…

— N.D. Wilson

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

— Don Marquis

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...…

— Wilbur Wright