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

We must behave as though we are accountable only to our Ancestors, descendants, and the generations yet to come.
Authors on Ancestor Quotes: Alice Walker Philip Carr-Gomm Russell Means Edmund Burke Jonas Salk Guy de Maupassant Toni Morrison David Mitchell Lynne Tillman Horace Marcus Borg Vanna Bonta Joan D. Vinge Norman Doidge Richard Dawkins Donald Trump Horace Walpole Maria Rodale Ralph Waldo Emerson Phonte Mau Piailug Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. William Kean Seymour Kenny Ausubel Richard G. Scott Claude Vorilhon Kurt Vonnegut Marian Wright Edelman Santiago Martinez Delgado Eric Cantona Maya Tiwari Ibn Khaldun William Shakespeare
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Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.
Ibn Khaldun

Humans are the product of tradition, not the progeny of their predecessors.
3.
The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things
Marcus Borg

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Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.
Winona LaDuke

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

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

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The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children
Philip Carr-Gomm

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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.
E. O. Wilson

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

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True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.
Russell Means

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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
Eric Cantona

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

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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.
Philip Carr-Gomm

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Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.
Lynne Tillman

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Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.
Herbert Agar

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

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

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

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

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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.
Stephen Hawking

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

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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.
Maya Tiwari

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

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

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We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
James Hillman

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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.
Erwin Schrodinger

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

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

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

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

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

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The wisdom of our ancestors.
Edmund Burke

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Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.
Norman Doidge

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

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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

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

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

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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.
Neil MacGregor

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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.
Alice Walker

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Are we being good ancestors?
Jonas Salk

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Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
Toni Morrison

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

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

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I am not my self, I am the result of all my ancestors.
Santiago Martinez Delgado

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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.
Maria Rodale

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

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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.
Donald Trump

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

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Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. Then steadily and consistently work to provide ordinances in the temple for your own ancestors.
Richard G. Scott