Forebears Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have… — Helen Fisher
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to… — John F. Kennedy
If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my… — Muriel Barbery
itâ€™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
Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes… — Cormac McCarthy
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a… — Mary McLeod Bethune
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. — Van Wyck Brooks
Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them… — Barack Obama

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