Quotes of: Ancestors Keyword

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Mark Pagel

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

Joan D. Vinge

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

Zubin Mehta

They say God is one and the same everywhere, in all countries. Well, I know everything, everything from the very beginning. Those big noses just came here with their books and spread them all over the place. Our ancestors, the founding father of our ...

The Guest

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Plutarch

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Robert Anton Wilson

Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and o...

David Suzuki

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.

Henry Louis Gates

My ancestors are Highland Scots, and my father's home in north Alabama is so much like northwest Arkansas. I have the same allergies in both places.

Ellen Gilchrist

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

Claude Vorilhon

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

Fiona Apple

Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same.

Life

You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.

Dune

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

Ziggy Marley

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

Plato

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

Sallust

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

Richard Leakey

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

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

Roh Moo-hyun

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Wilfrid Laurier