Ancestor Quotes

479 Ancestor quotes by 379 unique authors

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge. — Euripides
The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom. — Unknown Author
I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors… — Alan Keyes
No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way… — Walter Lippmann
Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist,… — John Milton
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs… — Saint Augustine
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants… — Mary Catherine Bateson
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity,… — Joseph Story
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents… — Carl Jung
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. — Daniel Levitin
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was… — Jimmy Carter
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't… — Milan Kundera
I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We… — Marilyn Nelson
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much… — Richard Dawkins
Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. — Butterfly McQueen
The Ojibways have great respect for the Bear. According to their legends, in the distant past the Bear had a human form and was in… — Norval Morrisseau
Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel… — Unknown Author
We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make… — Kate Elliott
No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not… — Diana Peterfreund
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he… — Aldo Leopold
When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections… — Russell M. Nelson
Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no… — Edward Abbey

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