Ancestor Quotes - Page 32

• Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Cosmos, Voyages

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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• Do not be too sure, young fellows,
  That you are better than your ancestors.

  William Kean Seymour

  Young, Fellows

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• My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.

  Apolo Ohno

  Father, Grandmother, Japan

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• Well, how'd we get to talking about our ancestors? People think we don't talk about anything else in Charleston.

  Josephine Pinckney

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Josephine Pinckney (2001). “Three O'Clock Dinner”, p.73, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

  Gladys Mitchell

  Liars, Lying, Sacred

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• We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Blood, Genealogy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Done, Compromise

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• Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Education, Mother, Teacher

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.

  Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Europe, Black, Culture

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