Best 98 quotes in «ancestor quotes» category

My ancestors are on Stromboli, while yours, dear reader, came from another island, another village or another place. What we share is a past that is awaiting our voyage of discovery.

Maybe, it is easier to forget the past, than to overcome the pain caused by it. Maybe, it is one of some other reasons, why men forget their prehuman ancestor.

That sure as fuck ain't no cow

This is Roshana, the last queen of the Amulen Empire, back when my people ruled all the lands from the east to the west. She is something of a legend among us. Every queen aspires to learn from her mistakes.” “Her mistakes? Surely you mean her victories.” “What?” I frown at her. “Roshana was one of the greatest queens in the world. She ended the Mountain Wars, she routed Sanhezriyah the Mad, she—” “For a foreign serving girl, you are strangely well versed in Amulen history.” “I spent a lot of time in libraries as a girl.” “Were you there to dust the scrolls or read them?” “Surely Roshana’s victories outweigh her errors.” “The higher you rise, the farther you fall. For all her wisdom, Roshana was fooled by the jinni, believing it was her friend, and then it destroyed her. Ever since that day, my people have hunted the jinn. There is no creature more vicious and untrustworthy.” “This is not the story I heard,” I say softly. “My people tell it differently. That the jinni truly was a friend to Roshana but was forced to turn against her. That she had no choice.” “Surely I know how my own ancestress died,” returns the princess, a bit hotly. “Anyway, it was a long time ago, but we Amulens do not forget.

The sacrifice our ancestors gave yesterday Gave us today and our tomorrow

The ancestors of the higher animals must be regarded as one-celled beings, similar to the Amoebae which at the present day occur in our rivers, pools, and lakes. The incontrovertible fact that each human individual develops from an egg, which, in common with those of all animals, is a simple cell, most clearly proves that the most remote ancestors of man were primordial animals of this sort, of a form equivalent to a simple cell. When, therefore, the theory of the animal descent of man is condemned as a 'horrible, shocking, and immoral' doctrine, tho unalterable fact, which can be proved at any moment under the microscope, that the human egg is a simple cell, which is in no way different to those of other mammals, must equally be pronounced 'horrible, shocking, and immoral.

There is a rope that stretches from Infinity to Infinity, passing over a razor which is the Present. If the rope is cut, both ends fall away from the middle and the rope is no more. If the man alive now dies without heir, the whole continuum of ancestors and unborn descendants dies with him... His existence as an individual is necessary but insignificant beside his existence as the representative of the whole

And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.

We do not brag about ancestors that were not great

We should have known much more than our ancestors. But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

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

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.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

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

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

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