Ancestor Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met.…

— Julius Lester

To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

— Frank Delaney

“My father told us stories about our ancestors and about the city and how we should act. He told us that the four sins…

— Ida Pruitt

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

— Thomas Carlyle

There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how…

— Donald Worster

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace

We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can…

— Samuel Johnson

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

“Most scholars today agree that the Gospels cannot be regarded strictly as history; not as many may be prepared to admit how little history…

— Kamal Salibi

“ghosts. He had learned a little of the history of Halyn House”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in the media.

— Hassan Blasim