Ancestor Quotes

479 quotes by 386 authors

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the… — Cory Booker
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. — Elayne Boosler
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke. — Buzz Aldrin
Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And… — Herman Cain
My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited. — Eric Cantona
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history. Across the Pacific,… — George H. W. Bush
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things… — Woodrow Wilson
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the largest voluntary migrations in recorded… — George W. Bush
An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny… — Ernst Haeckel
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people… — James A. Baldwin
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in… — Benjamin Disraeli
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I… — Alexander the Great
It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of… — Frederick The Great
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. — Horace Mann
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors. — William Shakespeare

Who Wrote These Ancestor Quotes

386 authors contributed a total of 479 Ancestor Quotes, led by these top contributors: