Ancestors Quote by Mariana van Zeller

“It's the land of my ancestors. I need to set my feet on that soil and see how I feel. I have missed my…

— Ruth Behar

We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates

— Robert Moss

I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some…

— Burna Boy

“The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution.”

— Steven Magee

My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere,…

— Bertrand Piccard

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

— Robert Bly

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience…

— Charles Lamb

“Like their ancestors, Louise and her parents klutzed away their days.”

— Henrik Drescher

“Visitors say, 'Real shrunken heads! Wow! How were they made? By slitting the skin, taking out the skull and brains and steaming them with…

— Frances Larson

My father is Portuguese, and in Portugal, it is traditional to take your mother's maiden name as a middle name. My mum is called…

— Lucy Bronze

I've come to find that I do think it is actually healthy for our relationship that I don't speak that much Portuguese because she…

— Matthew McConaughey

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“Dorme, dorme, meu menino Dorme no Mar dos Sargaços Que mais vale o mar a pino Que as serpentes nos meus braços.”

— Anonymous

“Portuguese cake-making”

— Lizzie Collingham

Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

— Mary McCarthy