Ancestor Quotes - Page 4

• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Family, Dance

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• Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

  Guru Nanak

  Religious, Wife, Faithful

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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

  Mistake, Intolerance, Violation

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• For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.

  Albert Claude

  Cells, Years, Two

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• Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

  John Ciardi

  Modern Life, Gone, Rich

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• I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

  George Takei

  Running, Looks, Marathon

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

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• Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Long

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• Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

  Donald Johanson

  Skeletons, Hands, Legs

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Cousin, Hobbies, Degrees

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• Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Dream, Hope

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.9, Random House

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• DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.

  Bryan Sykes

  Dna, Connections, Generations

  Bryan Sykes (2010). “The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry”, p.288, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The wisdom of our ancestors.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.271, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, People, Lasts

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 4, sc. 1

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  Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

  Wernher von Braun

  Wisdom, Witty, Humorous

  "Work, Society, and Culture". The New York Times, December 16, 1957.

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• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Ancestry, Signals, Breeding

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.139, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Ancestry, Every Man

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• Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

  Carl Sagan

  Night, Doors, Sky

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

  Robert Breault

  Fire, Flames, History

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• Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

  Winona LaDuke

  Descendants

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• It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

  Plutarch

  Family, Ancestry, Glory

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.12

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• So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

  Tacitus

  Memorial Day, Peace, War

  "Agricola". Book by Tacitus, transl. by G. J. Acheson, chapter 4, paragraph 22, final sentence, p. 72, 1938.

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• OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

  James Nasmyth

  Race, Influence, Born

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.1, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Hero, Virtue

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• The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

  Alain de Botton

  Anxiety, Might, Expecting

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.44, Vintage

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• When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Family, Heart, Connections

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