Ancestor Quotes

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

— Russell Means

Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wisdom of our ancestors.

— Edmund Burke

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

— Eric Cantona

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

— Anonymous

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

— Thomas Huxley

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

— Jonas Salk

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

— Edward Dahlberg

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

— A.C. Grayling

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

— Douglas Alexander

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

— Bertrand Russell

I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma

— E.D. Baker

As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

— Nainoa Thompson

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

— William Shakespeare

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

— David Mitchell

My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides…

— Apolo Ohno

Occasionally, when I lived in London, I would have sex with a girl from an aristocratic family. I always enjoyed doing to…

— Craig Ferguson

Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression…

— Xunzi

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm…

— Donald Johanson

By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we…

— Bob Waterston

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine…

— Benjamin Disraeli

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my…

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Ludwig von Mises

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing…

— Criss Jami

Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors,…

— Rachel Caine

One of our needs in a very complex society, where we encounter more people every day than probably our ancestors encountered over…

— Paul Solman

Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely…

— Sigmund Freud

Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied…

— Paul Davies

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history…

— Cory Booker

Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for…

— Veronica Roth

Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are…

— Edward Robert Harrison

Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did…

— David G. McAfee

Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,…

— Russell Brand

You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You…

— Cory Booker

There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam. I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything…

— Marion G. Romney

Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example,…

— Elliott Sober

“Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed…

— Anonymous

A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf