Ancestors Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one’s own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly…

— Oscar Wilde

“People usually compare themselves to their more fortunate contemporaries rather than to their ill-fated ancestors.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“They had both been raised in complete isolation from the everyday world, with their own set of values and disciplines, not because they had…

— Karen Traviss

“There was a minority among the human race, as there always had been, that found comfort in trading a personal freedom of mind and…

— Gordon R. Dickson

“...paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“He was already beginning to understand that what was wrong with his writing was that there was something wrong, something misconceived, about him. If…

— Salman Rushdie

“If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness…

— Jack London

“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like…

— Guy de Maupassant

“There are, I know, those who prefer not to go beyond the impression, however accidental, which an old work makes on a mind that…

— C.S. Lewis

“In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works. It is the spirit and not the fact that is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Can we   conceive that man was so placed in the earth as to be ignorant of his   own origin, and of the origin of…

— John Calvin

“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to…

— F. Sionil Jose