Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have…

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

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toba Beta

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

— Sonia Sanchez

“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

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

As a woman of color, I always pay homage to my ancestors and elders - in the industry in particular - who have paved…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take…

— Kilroy J. Oldster