Ancestor Quote by Suzanne Collins

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to…

— Alice Walker

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one.…

— Don Marquis

Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their…

— Annie Lennox

Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate…

— Richard Allen

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

— Alice Walker

Are we being good ancestors?

— Jonas Salk

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

— Swami Vivekananda

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

— Mark Pagel

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

— Charles Dudley Warner

“In this shifting landscape, we may tend to forget “what the old folks say.” Most of us probably now realize that our ancestors did…

— Deborah L. Parker

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

— Claude Vorilhon