Ancestor Quote by N.D. Wilson

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“What were they thinking?' we ask about our ancestors, but we know that, a century hence, our descendents will ask the same thing about…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Our ancestors are looking for us even if we're not looking for them. And by our ancestors I mean our bloodlines and the ancestors…

— Robert Moss

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant…

— Dmitri Volkogonov

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

— Jeremy Paxman

You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits…

— Paul Bowles

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to…

— John Ruskin

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

— Alice Walker

The other piece about tracing your ancestry is it makes you slightly more empathetic about what happens today. As we seem to have lost…

— Alex Wagner

We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that…

— Jay-Z

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it…

— Claude Levi-Strauss