“Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man.” — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.” — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“i never knew anyone so relentless to his ancestors - you make up for your soapiness toward the living” — E.M.Forster Copy Share Image
If you remember your ancestors, they can cross over and be with you again. — Anthony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech was arranged by ancestors who couldn't possibly have had an idea of what-all was going to be said. — Star Smithtown New York Copy Share Image
Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so… — Mumia Abu-Jamal 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
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
It is fashionable in some quarters to say our ancestors were all evil. I reject that notion. I also reject the elitist… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
We oll grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the atties of our brains as they… — Ladygaga Copy Share Image
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged. — Robert Whittaker Copy Share Image
We get stressed out now by having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or by losing… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
There is beauty in our roots. Sometimes we think our roots are shameful, and people tell you that you're no good or… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Our ancestors are looking for us even if we're not looking for them. And by our ancestors I mean our bloodlines and… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Given the scale of the ecological crisis we are facing this is the appropriate scale of expansion. Occupying the streets to bring… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
When I looked at the family tree and at where my ancestors lived, it was places like Rothbury and Tropton! I was… — Robson Green Copy Share Image
“She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mountain’s realization comes through the details of the breath, mountain appears in each step. Mountain then lives inside our bones, inside our… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions.… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
“Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names. At some point… — Henry Wiencek Copy Share Image
