Ancestor Worship Quotes:

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

- Alan Dundes

topic: Children, Grandparent, Example, Filial, Filial Duty

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.

- Ihab Hassan

topic: Names, White, Offering, Erudition, Propitiation

We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start.

- Matthew D. Miller

topic: Benefits, Fresh Start, Worship, Ancestor Worship

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Knowledge, Positive Thinking, Learning, Ancestor Worship

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

- David Allen

topic: Action, Waldo Emerson, Ancestor, Ralph Waldo, Ancestor Worship

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

- Douglas Alexander

topic: Talking, Worship, Building, Ancestor Worship, Building The Future

Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as we see her is only the latest manifestation of other Londons, and to lover her is to plunge into ancestor-worship.

- Henry Vollam Morton

source: Henry Vollam Morton (1951). “In Search of London”

topic: London, Lovers, Worship, Ancestor Worship

People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

topic: Hurt, People, Ancestry, Ancestor Worship

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

- David Henry Hwang

topic: Religious, Parent, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Code Of Ethics