Ancestor Quotes

479 Ancestor quotes by 379 unique authors

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going… — Anita Desai
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at… — Garrison Keillor
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. — Robert Breault
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm. — Chinua Achebe
The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things — Marcus Borg
Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of… — Bill Gates
Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according to individual knowledge,… — Dainin Katagiri
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as… — Walter Weyl
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very… — Michael Behe
Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still… — Learned Hand
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for… — John Dewey
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no… — Samuel Johnson
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the… — Chief Seattle
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more… — Carl Sagan
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession,… — Mary McCarthy
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion. — Christopher McDougall
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. — Maxine Hong Kingston
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived. — Richard Leakey
Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors… — Thomas Banchoff
We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start. — Matthew D. Miller
Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I know to be… — Dave Hunt

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