We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn. — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor! — George Takei Copy Share Image
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted. — Raymond Charles Barker Copy Share Image
I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors… — Anna Thomas Copy Share Image
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the… — Philip Carr-Gomm Copy Share Image
Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far… — Richard Thornton Copy Share Image
We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one… — Ashraf Barhom Copy Share Image
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you.… — Roy Sesana Copy Share Image
So what is the Dreaming? I would say the Dreaming is a non-indigenous term used in its broadest sense to describe the… — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
You know, my name … comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov.… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“On problems finding female ancestors,of any background, remember "I cannot put gas in my car without a note from my husband. The… — Christina Kassabian Schaefer Copy Share Image
Black History is enjoying the life of our ancestors who paved the way for every African-American. No matter what color you are,… — Bernice Mosby Copy Share Image
A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
It all began when... they're funny, those words. Everyone uses them, without thinking what they mean. When does anything begin? With everyone… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“We should have known much more than our ancestors. But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living. — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. — Butterfly McQueen Copy Share Image
We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?' — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
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