Ancestor Quote by Guy de Maupassant

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

— Neil LaBute

We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.

— Bob Weir

The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must respect their culture and to respect your elders

— Mak_786

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we…

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

— Douglas Adams

We must strive to become good ancestors.

— Ralph Nader

We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to…

— Sherri Saum

“Tradition is not just a word. It's who you are, where you came from and where you will always belong. Never take your eyes…

— Wahab Oriyomi Osuolale

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

— Morena Baccarin

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

— Karl Marx