Best Ancestors Qoutes

533 Ancestors quotes by 412 unique authors

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served… — Joshua
A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth.… — Suzy Kassem
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors,… — Ken MacLeod
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as… — Adam Gollner
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency… — Ambrose Bierce
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a… — Donald Johanson
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and… — Richard Leakey
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad… — James Henry Breasted
The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees… — Will Durant
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going… — Anita Desai
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at… — Garrison Keillor
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. — Robert Breault
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm. — Chinua Achebe
The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things — Marcus Borg
Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of… — Bill Gates
Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according to individual knowledge,… — Dainin Katagiri
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as… — Walter Weyl
Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still… — Learned Hand
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for… — John Dewey
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no… — Samuel Johnson
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the… — Chief Seattle
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more… — Carl Sagan

Who Wrote These Ancestors Quotes

412 authors contributed a total of 533 Ancestors Quotes, led by these top contributors:

Best Ancestors Qoutes

More Ways to Read Ancestors Quotes

Who Wrote These Ancestors Quotes