Ancestral Quotes

63 quotes by 60 authors

The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness caused by Marxism - and… — Conrad Grober
There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to… — Olaus Murie
Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other people… — Daniel Gordis
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre… — Ana Mendieta
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp… — V.S. Naipaul
The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and… — Carl Jung
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not… — Petrarch
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency… — Rosy Cole
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral… — Ross Macdonald
Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is… — Ernst Mayr
The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge. — Austin Osman Spare
Bones tell me the story of a person's life â€” how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background, — Kathy Reichs
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against… — Neal Ascherson
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard
I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it ... into light. — Nikos Kazantzakis
There were other Anti-Christs among the Nephites, but they were more military leaders than religious innovators... they are all of one breed and brand; so… — B. H. Roberts
The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to… — Margaret Starbird
All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet. — Joshua Nkomo
Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or… — David Quammen
All cultures forged by nationsâ€”the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth… — Subcomandante Marcos

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