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Ancestor Quotes - Page 3

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

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

William Kean Seymour
Young, Ancestor, Fellows

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

Vanna Bonta
Gardening, Ancestor, Universe
"Space: what love’s got to do with it" by Vanna Bonta, www.thespacereview.com. October 25, 2004.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

Thomas Jefferson
Lawyer, Ancestor, Laborers

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

Tad Williams
Ancestor
Tad Williams (2010). “Shadowrise: Volume Three of Shadowmarch”, p.524, Penguin

We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates

Robert Moss
Ancestor, Connected

Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. Then steadily and consistently work to provide ordinances in the temple for your own ancestors.

Richard G. Scott
Covenant, Temples, Ancestor

Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action, Ancestor

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Ancestor, Thousand
Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.337, e-artnow

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Hero, Society, Ancestor

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

Horace Walpole
Degenerates, Ancestor, Posterity
Horace Walpole, George Vertue (1798). “The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...”, p.370

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

Gregory Maguire
Monk, Ancestor, Knows

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.

Edward Abbey
Dream, Suffering, Ancestor
Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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