Best 98 quotes in «ancestor quotes» category

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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

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

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

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

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

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

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

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

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

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

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

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

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

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.

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.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

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

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

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

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

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.