Quotes of: Ancestors Keyword

To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

Frank Delaney

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Alice Walker

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

Zhu Rongji

I always encourage them to practice in a way that will help them go back to their own tradition and get re-rooted. If they succeed at at becoming reintegrated, they will be an important instrument in transforming and renewing their tradition. ... Whe...

Living Buddha, Living Christ

I’m not descended from anybody. All my ancestors are ascending from me.

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Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

Shadowrise

Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.

number9dream

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Mark Pagel

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

Mikheil Saakashvili

In a sense, all Americans are battle-born. Our ancestors came here for something better.

Brandon Flowers

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Douglas Adams

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

David Brower

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Don Marquis

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

John Ciardi

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

Elayne Boosler

In America, your ancestors don't matter so much. You're just .

Mismatch

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Peter R. Grant

All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.

Edward Ball

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

James Nasmyth

It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.

Robert Winston