Best Our Ancestors Sayings
179 Our Ancestors quotes by 147 unique authors
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We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors…
— Roy Sesana
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I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us
— Phonte
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The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children
— Philip Carr-Gomm
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
— Amilcar Cabral
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Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their…
— Carl Sagan
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Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that we may use for our own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our…
— Charles Kellogg
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Nature and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud warnings. Today you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms, climate changes and…
— Thomas Banyacya
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Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did our ancestors, they…
— David G. McAfee
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We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness"…
— Carl Jung
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We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering…
— Robert Neelly Bellah
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
— Edward Dahlberg
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Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as…
— Russell Kirk
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There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of ourselves and our…
— Christopher Tunnard
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So what is the Dreaming? I would say the Dreaming is a non-indigenous term used in its broadest sense to describe the stories of our…
— Hetti Perkins
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This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country in the culture…
— Hetti Perkins
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The keys Elijah restored to Joseph Smith permit our hearts to be bound and each of us linked to those of our ancestors who are…
— Richard G. Scott
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
— Carl Sagan
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Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that our ancestors lacked…
— Frans de Waal
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If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.
— Rolf Dobelli
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Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in…
— Carl Sagan
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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth.…
— Suzy Kassem
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Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors,…
— Ken MacLeod
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If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as…
— Adam Gollner
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