Ancestral Quotes

63 Ancestral quotes by 59 unique authors

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
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
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
I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village. — Sanjeev Bhaskar
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
Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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
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
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
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
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
Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease — Edgar Watson Howe
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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