Ancestor Quotes

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.

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.

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

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

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.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

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

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.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

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

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

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.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

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

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.

Are we being good ancestors?

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.

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

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

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

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

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

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

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

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.

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

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

I am not my self, I am the result of all my 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.

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

What we've inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before. And if we fail to preserve it, it will never, ever exist again. So we cannot fail.

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