Best 98 quotes in «ancestor quotes» category

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

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

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

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

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

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 glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own 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.

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

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

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

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.

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 wisdom 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.

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

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.

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.

We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

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

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 must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

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

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

When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.

When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived.

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.

When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.

Here it is necessary briefly to consider the question of the cult of ancestors before venturing farther. The spirits of the departed are believed to be possessed of supernatural powers which they did not enjoy in the flesh. They may also be dissatisfied or malignant in consequence of being suddenly deprived of life, and if they are neglected by the living, are apt to be revengeful. Therefore they must be cajoled and propitiated. Fear of beings belonging to a mysterious state or sphere of which he knew nothing continually haunted and terrified primitive man and induced in him what is known as" the dread of the sacred." It was every man's personal duty to attend to the demands or requirements of his deceased ancestors. At first he would succour his own immediate forebears with food and gifts; but it must have been borne in upon him that when his parents joined the great majority, the care of the spirits of their parents likewise devolved upon him... and, by degrees, he might even come to regard himself as responsible for the well-being of a line of spirit ancestors of quite formidable genealogy. These, through his neglect, might starve in their tombs; or, alternatively, they might crave his company. Because of vengeance or loneliness they might send disease upon him, for the savage almost invariably believes illness to be brought about by the action of jealous or neglected ancestors. The loneliness of the spirit-world is the dead man's greatest excuse for desiring the company of his descendants.

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.

Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear in the fossil record suddenly, not connected with their ancestors by a series of intermediates.

If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.

It reminds me about Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine, said when asked what the main aim of his life had been: ‘to be a good ancestor.’ A comment like that can only come from a man profoundly aware of his place in the universe.

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.