Best 98 quotes in «ancestor quotes» category

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.

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

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

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.

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

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

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

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.

If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

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

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

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

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

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

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

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

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

The most sensitive frequencies are at the resonant frequencies of the auditory canal. In other words, the ear has shaped itself to naturally amplify certain bandwidth. And that corresponds to sounds in that bandwidth that were most important to our evolving ancestors to hear, in order to survive. And it doesn't match the human voice. It matches birdsong.

The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.