Ancestral Quotes

63 Ancestral quotes by 59 unique authors

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
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
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
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
Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime. — James Russell Lowell
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
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
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
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
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
Ancestral voices prophesying war. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall. — Clarence Day
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
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
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment. — Keith Henson
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
..........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
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

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