Our Ancestors Quotes
179 quotes by 152 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
— Plutarch
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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
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Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
— Walter Lippmann
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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . .…
— Red Cloud
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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
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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
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Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.
— Euripides
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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
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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
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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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