Ancestor Quote by James Nasmyth

Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Each of us is born with a history already in place

— Walter Dean Myers

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

— Claude Vorilhon

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic…

— Carl Sagan

I feel like our history and our roots make us who we are.

— Buddy Valastro

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what…

— Learned Hand

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

— Alex Haley

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

— John Henrik Clarke

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in…

— Anonymous

For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of…

— Hannah Arendt

“History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors”

— Robert Irwin