Ancestral Quotes
63 Ancestral quotes by 59 unique authors
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Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of…
— Russell Kirk
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At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as…
— Jack Kerouac
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Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense…
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.
— Malidoma Patrice Some
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Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.
— James Russell Lowell
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The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught,…
— Clarence Day
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We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are…
— Anthony Burgess
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I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new…
— Chinua Achebe
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Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so…
— Roman Coppola
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In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor…
— Michael Denton
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Ancestral voices prophesying war.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.
— Clarence Day
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To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm…
— Jomo Kenyatta
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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies…
— George Eliot
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High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
— Keith Henson
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The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
— Margaret Walker
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way…
— E. O. Wilson
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It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had…
— Helen Fisher
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I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the…
— H P Lovecraft
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So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon…
— George Orwell
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...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back…
— Thomas Wolfe
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We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though…
— Eric Weiner
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Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of…
— Charlie Chaplin
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..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient…
— William Wordsworth
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Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat…
— Christopher McDougall
Who Wrote These Ancestral Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 63 Ancestral Quotes, led by these top contributors: