Ancestor Quotes

479 Ancestor quotes by 379 unique authors

Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government is always a… — Joseph Sobran
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the… — John Hench
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society… — Walter Lippmann
Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden. — Carl David Anderson
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the… — Immanuel Velikovsky
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section… — Cole Younger
The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the… — Jacob G. Hornberger
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
One of the best things about Heaven is that we will be able to reunite with loved ones who have already passed on. It will… — David Berg
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. — Horace
Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and… — William Shakespeare
HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none… — Alice Walker
My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully. — Bertrand Russell
If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did… — Simon Wiesenthal
We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world… — E. O. Wilson
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have… — Daniel Dennett
Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors,… — Robert Cray
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors... This is… — Erwin Schrodinger
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so… — David Abram
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father… — Will Rogers
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while… — Theodore Roosevelt
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit… — Crazy Horse
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their… — Samuel Adams

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