Ancestor famous quotes

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
-- Amilcar Cabral

#Children #Answers #Ancestor

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.
-- Brendan Fraser

#Wheels #Not Sure #Ancestor

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.
-- Butterfly McQueen

#Slavery #Ancestor

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
-- Chief Seattle

#Ashes #Sacred #Ancestor

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

#Mistake #Intolerance #Ancestor

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
-- David Allen

#Action #Waldo Emerson #Ancestor

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.
-- Erwin Schrodinger

#Self #Fifty #Ancestor

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
-- Guy de Maupassant

#Weight #Politics #Ancestor

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.
-- Herbert Agar

#Snob #Ancestor

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
-- Horace Walpole

#Degenerates #Ancestor #Posterity

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
-- James Hillman

#Soul #Forget #Ancestor

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
-- Joan D. Vinge

#Upset #Balance #Ancestor

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

#Gone #Rich #Ancestor

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
-- Jonas Salk

#Important #Be Good #Ancestor

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
-- Jonas Salk

#Responsibility #Be Good #Ancestor

Are we being good ancestors?
-- Jonas Salk

#Be Good #Thrive #Ancestor

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.
-- Joshua

#Land #Lord #Ancestor

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.
-- Kenny Ausubel

#Generations #Plant #Ancestor

We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.
-- Luisah Teish

#Impact #Ancestor

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.
-- Lynne Tillman

#Pepsi #Ancestor

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things
-- Marcus Borg

#Religious #Saws #Ancestor

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.
-- Maria Rodale

#Proud #Pleasure #Ancestor

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.
-- Mau Piailug

#Have Faith #Ancestor #Have Courage

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

#Dream #Georgia #Ancestor

From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.
-- Neil MacGregor

#People #Tools #Ancestor

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.
-- Norman Doidge

#Fear #Ghost #Ancestor

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children
-- Philip Carr-Gomm

#Song #Children #Ancestor

When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.
-- Philip Carr-Gomm

#Life #Ancestor #Draws

I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us
-- Phonte

#Rocks #Chains #Ancestor

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

#Family #Glory #Ancestor

We must strive to become good ancestors.
-- Ralph Nader

#Strive #Ancestor

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Men #Ancestor #Quotations

We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates
-- Robert Moss

#Ancestor #Connected

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
-- Robert T. Bakker

#Dinosaurs #Mammals #Ancestor

I am not my self, I am the result of all my ancestors.
-- Santiago Martinez Delgado

#Self #Results #Ancestor

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

#Ancestor

Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.
-- William Kean Seymour

#Young #Ancestor

When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.
-- Maya Tiwari

#Simple #Looks #Ancestor