Ancestor Quotes

Ancestor Quote of the day

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

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

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

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

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

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

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.

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

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

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.

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

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start.

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.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

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

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

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts

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

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

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

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.

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.

I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us

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

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

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

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into 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.

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.