Ancestor Quote by Philip Sidney

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

— Benjamin Franklin

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

— Aaron Hill

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

— Chinua Achebe

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

— Moliere

“Our ancestors believed that they were not born complete. There was someone out there with a part of their heart and soul. When they…

— Eden Cole

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

— Clarence Darrow

Men must be born and reborn to belong. Their bodies must be formed of the dust of their forefathers bones.

— Luther Standing Bear

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

— Orson Welles

“of fathers, children have been born unto thee.” For the Lord, having been born “the First-begotten of the dead,” and receiving into His bosom…

— The Church Fathers

Birth was the death of him.

— Samuel Beckett

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

— Ibn Khaldun

I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the…

— D. H. Lawrence