Our forefathers marched so that we could now have an opportunity to live. — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.” — Liam Callanan Copy Share Image
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I am a Malayali. My ancestors are from Tamil Nadu, but they settled in Irinjalakuda. — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely… — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
“there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
My ancestors had to keep their customs secret for fear of death or persecution, so it's common to be secretive and discreet… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
“It's the land of my ancestors. I need to set my feet on that soil and see how I feel. I have… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what… — David Suzuki 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
“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
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
Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Each of us is the product of history. Our lives today are evidence that our ancestors survived unbelievable odds stretching back to… — Laura Wheldon Copy Share Image
You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Never forget where you came from and what your ancestors had to go through just for you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma — E.D. Baker Copy Share Image
My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors move along with us, in underground rivers and springs too deep for chaos to reach.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way — Ali Shariati 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
“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
Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors. — William Kean Seymour Copy Share Image
