Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive. — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors. — William Kean Seymour Copy Share Image
“Ancestors from all times have shared their essence with you. Accept the light and let go of the rest.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors dreamed us into being. The least we can do is listen when the earth speaks back.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
“All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.” — Lucy Knisley 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
“We are free falling backward through time, reincarnating ourselves from our past, reflecting the chaotic energy of the present.” — Lorin Morgan-Richards Copy Share Image
I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
“Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles. One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and… — Gemma B. Benton Copy Share Image
It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Just because I don't believe in YOUR God doesn't mean I don't believe in God. I just choose not to be bound… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.” — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, bathrooms didn't exist. The bathroom's development has not been a straightforward matter, and you might be surprised to… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“We are the subjects, and so is everything around us, of all manner of subtle and inexplicable influences: and if our ancestors… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 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
“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.” — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man.” — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Your people have lost the vision and vitality of your ancestors (73).” — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham. — Neon Hitch 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 would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. — Moliere 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 love being an African American female! I love my skin tone & learning about my ancestors. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your existence is a testament to the body wisdom of your ancestors.” — Dalia Kinsey 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
