Best 98 quotes in «ancestor quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

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

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

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

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

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

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

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

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