Best Ancestors Wisdom
533 Ancestors quotes by 412 unique authors
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The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children
— Philip Carr-Gomm
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Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists…
— Richard Thornton
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
— Amilcar Cabral
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Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
— Plato
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Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people…
— Winona LaDuke
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Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their…
— Carl Sagan
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Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that we may use for our own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our…
— Charles Kellogg
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If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.
— Unknown Author
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Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go…
— Colin Jordan
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I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a…
— Sid Fleischman
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Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.
— Karen Lord
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Nature and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud warnings. Today you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms, climate changes and…
— Thomas Banyacya
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There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam. I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything but Jesus Christ,…
— Marion G. Romney
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We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates
— Robert Moss
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Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to…
— Sam Francis
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Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did our ancestors, they…
— David G. McAfee
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Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and even interacted with…
— David G. McAfee
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We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness"…
— Carl Jung
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We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering…
— Robert Neelly Bellah
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No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
— Edward Dahlberg
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Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as…
— Russell Kirk
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
— Moliere
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