Best Ancestral Sayings
63 Ancestral quotes by 59 unique authors
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it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the…
— Michel Houellebecq
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Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the…
— P L Travers
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If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.
— Sanjeev Bhaskar
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What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to…
— Richard Dawkins
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and…
— Lewis Thomas
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He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any…
— Horace
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TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its…
— Ambrose Bierce
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What we need most now as Americans is forbearance and tolerance of our fellow citizens who hold views opposite or different than our own. Forbearance…
— John Lars Zwerenz
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The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.
— Paul Mellon
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Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease
— Edgar Watson Howe
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The very fact of calling us Indians creates a new identity for us, an identity that began with their arrival. Changing identity, creating a new…
— John Trudell
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