If We Lose The Ways Of Our Ancestors, We Lose Ourselves.

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom…

— Benjamin E. Mays

There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all…

— Victor Niederhoffer

“How often do pawns win? They lose because they only move two ways. You’re marching to your death on a stubborn ideal.”

— Eva Natsumi

“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