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Ancestors Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his…
- Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the…
- In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each…
- Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a…
More Ancestors Quotes
- For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history… — Cory Booker
- As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for… — Elayne Boosler
- People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
- Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke. — Buzz Aldrin
- Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back… — Herman Cain
- My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited. — Eric Cantona
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.… — George H. W. Bush
- We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them… — Woodrow Wilson
- Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the largest voluntary… — George W. Bush
- An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental… — Ernst Haeckel