Ancestor Quotes

479 Ancestor quotes by 379 unique authors

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. — Edward Abbey
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour.… — Hannibal
I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My… — Mitt Romney
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago. — Olaf Stapledon
Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and… — Joy Harjo
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not… — Petrarch
What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors. — Robert Mugabe
Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of… — Moshe Dayan
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were… — Mark Twain
Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted. — Raymond Charles Barker
We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born into the stories… — Lewis Hyde
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary… — William Gaddis
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might… — Marshall McLuhan
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when… — Saint Augustine
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking… — Malcolm X
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and… — Plato
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives… — Plato
We are the ancestors of our grandchildren's children. We look after them, just as our ancestors look after us. We aren't here for ourselves. We… — Roy Sesana
Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead. — Lynne Tillman
I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand… — Herbert Hoover
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man… — Thomas Jefferson
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if… — David Hume
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly… — Samuel Johnson
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first… — Christopher McDougall
Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers… — Paulo Coelho

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