Ancestor Quotes - Page 5

• We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

  Milan Kundera

  Funny, Humorous, Inspiration

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• The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Decision, Negative, Action

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.18, Nilgiri Press

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

  Kenny Ausubel

  Generations, Plant, Seeds

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• As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.

  Butterfly McQueen

  Freedom, Religion, Slavery

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will not be like her mother. She can invent something new. I think that is the best message of modernity.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• 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.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Together, Truth Is

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

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• Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.

  Anna Thomas

  Song, Food, Book

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• Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.

  Annie Lennox

  Ideas, Challenges, Essentials

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

  Mau Piailug

  Have Faith, Have Courage, Ifs

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• There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.

  Kate Wilhelm

  Home, Roots, Mountain

  Kate Wilhelm (2000). “No Defense”, Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA Books

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• Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

  Plutarch

  Merit, Birth, Fine Things

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• It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

  Horace Mann

  Grandparent, Would Be, Deeds

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

  Edmund Burke

  Treasure, Remembered, Preserves

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• Cooking is what makes us human. For example, Chimpanzees spend eight to ten hours trying to feed themselves, they are occupied by it, eating basically indigestible things. Once our human ancestors learn to cook things, suddenly we didn't have to spend that much time on digestion, our brains expanded, and we think about other things.

  Jonathan Gold

  Thinking, Cooking, Brain

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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

  Guy de Maupassant

  Weight, Politics, Customs

  "On the Water". Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.

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• Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

  Dorothy Day

  Names, Mediocrity, Proud

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• Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology evolved in association with this diet. The balanced diet for our species was what we could acquire then, not what the government and doctors tell us to eat now.

  Lionel Tiger

  Doctors, Government, Vegetables

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• Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

  Moliere

  Vices, Birth, Virtue

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• What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

  James A. Baldwin

  America, Identity, Heroic

  "For the Love of God — and Country" by Bryan Berghoef, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2013.

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• HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Animal, Color

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.

  Huey Newton

  Book, School, Uprising

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

  Euripides

  Revenge, Guilt, Death Penalty

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.203, University of Chicago Press

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• Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

  Horace Walpole

  Degenerates, Posterity

  Horace Walpole, George Vertue (1798). “The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...”, p.370

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• Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Justice, Humanity

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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