Our Ancestors Quotes

179 quotes by 152 authors

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things… — Woodrow Wilson
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them. — Moliere
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors. — Plutarch
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in… — Dorothy Day
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. — Walter Lippmann
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. — Charles Dudley Warner
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and… — Richard Dawkins
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of… — Thomas Jefferson
Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology… — Lionel Tiger
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. — Neal A. Maxwell
We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . .… — Red Cloud
The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals… — Thomas Jefferson
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this… — Patricia Schroeder
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge. — Euripides
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors… — Alan Keyes
No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way… — Walter Lippmann
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs… — Saint Augustine

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