Ancestor Quotes - Page 17

• Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

  Norman Doidge

  Fear, Ghost, Psychoanalysis

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.243, Penguin

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• Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?

  Socrates

  Mother, Country, Father

  "Crito". By Plato,

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• A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

  Chinua Achebe

  Life, Men, Transition

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.

  John Brunner

  Military, Epidemics, Race

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.73, Macmillan

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• Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

  Amin Maalouf

  Believe, Lasting Happiness, Generations

  Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.342, Macmillan

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• Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture

  Jennifer Crusie

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions in support of Islam and their ancestor Muhammad the Lord of Apostles. Let two Kaftans of honor for the two brothers be issued from my wardrobe and let them be sent with two swords, jewel-hilted and provided with pearl mounted belts, let Jamdat-ul-Mulk write much praise and congratulations when sending these presents.

  Aurangzeb

  Brother, Congratulations, Writing

  "Later Mughals: Volume II: 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, 1922.

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• Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks.

  Arrian

  Leader, Greek, Done

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• Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Moving, Sight

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• By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.

  Bob Waterston

  Dna, Common, Evolution

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• The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Home, Past, Compliments You

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

  Empress Dowager Cixi

  Fighting, Yield, Why Not

  "The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China". Book by Keith Laidler, p. 221, January 21, 2005.

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• No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ambition, America, Order

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• The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Lying, Government, Liberty

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• Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.

  Francis Collins

  Dna, Doubt, Records

  "Collins: Why This Scientist Believes in God" by Francis Collins, edition.cnn.com. April 06, 2007.

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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

  Self, Fifty, Strict

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (p. 28), 1961.

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• Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Eye, Two, Feet

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• ‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!

  Bernard Cornwell

  Giving Up, Blood, Sea

  Bernard Cornwell (2009). “The Last Kingdom (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 1)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

  Jose Rizal

  Men, Evil, Abuse

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• If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death - like man. Let us not crawl down amongst the rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be rats ourselves!

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Men, White, Race

  "In Hoc Signo Vinces". Book by George Lincoln Rockwell, 1960.

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• No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

  Daniel Levitin

  Past, Winning, Champion

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• I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets."

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspiration, Old Testament, Prophet

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Hamilton had a complaint. "Why did you have to tell the cops I'm your boyfriend? That's gross, Amy. We're related!" Amy was disgusted. "We had a common ancestor, like, five hundred years ago. Besides, if they think we're together, we only have to come up with one story, and I can do all the talking." "Hey, I got an early acceptance to Notre Dame," Hamilton said defensively. "I can talk." "Of course you can," Amy soothed. "It's what you say that might get us into trouble.

  Gordon Korman

  Acceptance, Thinking, Talking

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.83, Scholastic Inc.

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• An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Science, Simple, Men

  Ernst Haeckel, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1906). “The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester”

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• I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

  Tracy Morgan

  Stars, Grandchildren, Long

  "Tracy Morgan ‘Cop Out’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 22, 2010.

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