Ancestors Quote by Gemma B. Benton

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...…

— Wilbur Wright

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we…

— Gary Hamel

“You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.”

— Toba Beta

Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts,…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

As a woman of color, I always pay homage to my ancestors and elders - in the industry in particular - who have paved…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started a new…

— Goran Dragic

Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every…

— Daniel Levitin

I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

— Alice Walker

I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an…

— Mohamed Al-Fayed

All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.

— Edward Ball