quotes about Ancestor
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
-- Amilcar Cabral -
Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.
-- Brendan FraserSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.
-- Butterfly McQueenSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
-- Chief Seattle -
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
-- Claude Vorilhon -
The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
-- David Allen -
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 -
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
-- Guy de MaupassantSource : "On the Water". Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.
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Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.
-- Herbert Agar -
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
-- Horace Walpole -
We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
-- James Hillman -
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
-- Joan D. Vinge -
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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
-- John Ciardi -
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
-- Jonas Salk -
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
-- Jonas SalkSource : "Learning from the Future : Competitive Foresight Scenarios". Book by Liam Fahey and Robert M. Randall, p. 332, 1998.
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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 -
Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.
-- Kenny Ausubel -
We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.
-- Luisah Teish -
Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.
-- Lynne TillmanSource : Lynne Tillman (2014). “Motion Sickness”, p.113, Red Lemonade
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The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things
-- Marcus BorgSource : Marcus Borg (2014). “Convictions: A manifesto for progressive Christians”, p.81, SPCK
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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 -
If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.
-- Mau Piailug -
We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.
-- Mikhail Saakashvili -
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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 -
Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.
-- Norman Doidge -
The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children
-- Philip Carr-Gomm -
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-GommSource : Philip Carr-Gomm (2011). “Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century”, p.110, Random House
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
-- Plutarch -
We must strive to become good ancestors.
-- Ralph NaderSource : "The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap". Book by Ralph Nader, 2004.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates
-- Robert Moss -
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
-- Robert T. Bakker -
I am not my self, I am the result of all my ancestors.
-- Santiago Martinez Delgado -
Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.
-- Tad WilliamsSource : Tad Williams (2010). “Shadowrise: Volume Three of Shadowmarch”, p.524, Penguin
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Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.
-- William Kean Seymour -
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