Ancestor Quotes - Page 2

• Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

  Roh Moo-hyun

  Generations, Proud, Today

  "Roh Moo-Hyun's Inauguration Speech". February 25, 2003.

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

  Santiago Martinez Delgado

  Self, Results

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• I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Facts, Ancestry, Descent

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.637, Oxford University Press

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• They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Blood, Mountain

  James Russell Lowell (1896). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”

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• Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.

  Joseph Story

  Blessing, Blood, America

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• Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Family, Food

  "Fictional character: The Book". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/ Episode #1.1", www.imdb.com. January 1981.

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• High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Ancestry, Birth, Virtue

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• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Self, Denial, Littles

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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• Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Independence, Unions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library

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• Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

  Luther Burbank

  Heredity And Environment, Definitions, Ancestry

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  I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Peace, Boys

  Thomas Jefferson (1997). “Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Ignorance, Political

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Brutus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Eight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

  Maya Angelou

  Learning, House, Words Of Wisdom

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• Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

  Sallust

  Powerful, Light, Merit

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• True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

  Russell Means

  True To Yourself

  Source: progressive.org

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• We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

  James Hillman

  Soul, Forget

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

  David Allen

  Action, Waldo Emerson, Ancestor Worship

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.35, Penguin

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

  Alan Dundes

  Children, Grandparent, Asian Culture

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• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Class, Giving

  Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

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• For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cells, Bacteria, Firsts

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

  Frank Herbert

  Pay, Violence, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.133, Penguin

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• Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Heirlooms, Forests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.221, Penguin

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• Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

  Crazy Horse

  Children, Native American, Parent

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• Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

  Max Delbruck

  Science, Cells, Years

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