Ancestor Quotes

479 Ancestor quotes by 379 unique authors

The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going… — E. O. Wilson
Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear… — Ernst Mayr
We humans are in such a strange position—we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique—unlike any other animal… — Patricia McConnell
Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold… — Mother Jones
You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from… — Cory Booker
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past — Dmitri Volkogonov
Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a… — David Suzuki
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. — Scott McCloud
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when… — P D Ouspensky
Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself? — Haile Selassie
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core… — Roy Blount, Jr.
The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson — David Allen
Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined… — Joseph Warren
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi
From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is… — Neil MacGregor
And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with… — Jeff Hawkins
Over the course of the millennia, all these ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time-to give birth… — Laurence Overmire
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically. — Raquel Cepeda
I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him… — Jane Siberry
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon… — W. Somerset Maugham
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and… — Benjamin E. Mays
I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor! — George Takei
I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors. — Zhu Rongji
Children of those ancient Aryans, through the grace of the Lord may you have the same pride, may that faith in your ancestors come into… — Swami Vivekananda
Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them. — Swami Vivekananda

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