Every man Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

— James Boswell

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

— Frederick Henry Hedge

Every man is the author of his own life.

— Paul Auster

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.

— Anonymous

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.”

— Habeeb Akande

“If We Lose The Ways Of Our Ancestors, We Lose Ourselves.”

— Gail Johnston

Every man is the son of his own works.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

— George Bernard Shaw