Their Ancestors Quotes

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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve… — Bernard DeVoto
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity,… — Joseph Story
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors Ã¦ons ago. — Olaf Stapledon
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not… — Petrarch
What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors. — Robert Mugabe
Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of… — Moshe Dayan
Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers… — Paulo Coelho
There are more temples across the earth than there have ever been. More people in all the world have felt the Spirit of Elijah move… — Henry B. Eyring
Latinos have fought in all of Americaâ€™s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq,… — Joe Baca
Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
Wherever we look at the living biota â€¦ discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequentâ€¦The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear… — Ernst Mayr
I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors. — Zhu Rongji
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as… — Henry David Thoreau
There are Turks who don't admit that their ancestors committed genocide. If you look at it though, they seem to be nice peopleâ€¦ So why… — Hrant Dink
Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists… — Richard Thornton
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind. — Plato
I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a… — Sid Fleischman
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going… — Anita Desai

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