Ancestors Quotes · Page 6

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

— Plutarch

All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.

— William Shakespeare

Our ancestors grew a lot of millets and incorporated them in their diet.

— Chef Damu

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

— Sonia Sanchez

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

— Douglas Adams

“I’m not descended from anybody. All my ancestors are ascending from me.”

— Jarod Kintz

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

— Ibn Khaldun

I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren't allowed to. I love to write. Because for…

— Martellus Bennett

As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings.…

— Kenneth R. Miller

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You…

— Ralph Ellison

I believe I am connecting to angels and spirit guides and ancestors. All of that is falling under the category of God…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories…

— Luanne Rice

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

— Buzz Aldrin

I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our…

— Steven Pinker

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors…

— Jeremy Paxman

“And when, at last, … I stood in London with ten pounds in my hand - five of which I promptly lost…

— P.L. Travers

Our African ancestors were the first to engage in breathing. By that logic, I think by breathing today, we are engaging in…

— Gad Saad

“I don’t think my journey has to be harrowing to be important. Simply doing the tasks of the day is enough. Such…

— Mike Ericksen

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back,…

— Alice Walker

I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a…

— Diane Ackerman

Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to…

— David Perlmutter

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay.…

— Kage Baker

No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners.…

— Diana Peterfreund

“The best of your ancestors and the magic of the cosmos is in your DNA.”

— Jan Porter

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.

— Mau Piailug

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

— Jonas Salk

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

— Zhu Rongji

My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.

— Richard Flanagan

“I keep the light and love from my ancestors and let go of the rest.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.”

— Francisco X. Alarcón

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

— Anonymous

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

— Peter R. Grant

I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.

— Louise Erdrich

We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates

— Robert Moss

“He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

The wealth of our country was based on free labour, and that free labour was African labour - our ancestors.

— Paterson Joseph

I hope that we will honor our ancestors and our future generations.

— Lily Gladstone

“We should have known much more than our ancestors. But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.”

— Toba Beta

Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.

— Raymond Charles Barker