Ancestor Quotes - Page 2

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

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

The wisdom of our ancestors.

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

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.

From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

Are we being good ancestors?

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

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

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

What we've inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before. And if we fail to preserve it, it will never, ever exist again. So we cannot fail.

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.