Ancestor Quotes

479 Ancestor quotes by 379 unique authors

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye,… — Bill Bryson
Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the… — Linda Hogan
We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was… — Jay-Z
Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth.… — Brian Cox
If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors. — Mahatma Gandhi
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while… — Mohsin Hamid
...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives… — Ellen DeGeneres
This is a beautiful and hopeful time to be alive. We are at a turning point, and your contribution to the world is needed more… — Ilchi Lee
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. — Maya Angelou
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin.… — Andre Gide
Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to… — Carl Sandburg
Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as… — Michael Pollan
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. — Alan Dundes
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own… — Janine Benyus
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and… — Starhawk
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have… — Havelock Ellis
Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they… — Stephen Jay Gould
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is… — Charles Darwin
Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing… — Bruce Feiler
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past,… — F. Sionil Jose
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of… — Paul Di Filippo
We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god. — Ashraf Barhom
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. — Francis Herbert Hedge
Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor. — John McCarthy

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