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533 Ancestors quotes by 412 unique authors

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. — Maya Angelou
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems… — Unknown Author
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… — Walter Lippmann
Are we being good ancestors? — Jonas Salk
The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their wits by color.… — Dorothy Draper
My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way — Ali Shariati
A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground. — Unknown Author
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as… — Henry David Thoreau
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto… — Jack Handey
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of… — Charles Lamb
You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned or lowly their… — Wallace D. Wattles
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life… — Swami Vivekananda
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?' — Jonas Salk
The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless… — Glenn T. Seaborg
There are Turks who don't admit that their ancestors committed genocide. If you look at it though, they seem to be nice people… So why… — Unknown Author
We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities,… — Ishmael Beah
Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and… — Martha Brooks
We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors… — Roy Sesana
Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked. — Luisah Teish
We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact. — Luisah Teish
My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham. — Neon Hitch
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. — Jonas Salk
Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of your Fathers; where… — Ernst Moritz Arndt
I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us — Phonte
I'm free... to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't. I can. And my children will. — Jefferson Smith

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