“I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.” — Francisco X. Alarcón Copy Share Image
I hope that we will honor our ancestors and our future generations. — Lily Gladstone 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
Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted. — Raymond Charles Barker Copy Share Image
Happy Black History Month! Thank my ancestors for providing a firm foundation for me and my people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The wealth of our country was based on free labour, and that free labour was African labour - our ancestors. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“One fifth of people alive a millennium ago in Europe are the ancestors of no one alive today. Their lines of descent… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“So they say things like, “Go back to your country,” as if their Irish ancestors never walked through Ellis Island.” — Dominique Christina Ashaheed Copy Share Image
I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I think often about my ancestors who struggled for freedom, and as I think of those giants and their broad shoulders, I… — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that the KKK still exists, especially knowing all my ancestors have been through. I feel like… — Normani Kordei Copy Share Image
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
“To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness;… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Each family has a history we pass on to each successive generation. We bear the glories and the burdens of our name,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages. — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
I love being an African American female! I love my skin tone & learning about my ancestors. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I am the product of all the ancestors getting together and deciding these stories need to be told” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Your existence is a testament to the body wisdom of your ancestors.” — Dalia Kinsey Copy Share Image
Our ancestors grew a lot of millets and incorporated them in their diet. — Chef Damu Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
