Ancestor Quotes

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

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

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.

When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

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

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

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

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.

I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us

That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free.