We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn. Votes: 2
Amilcar CabralPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Votes: 1
Edmund BurkeI just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. Votes: 1
Alice WalkerOur ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us. Votes: 0
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierreMy chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareMemories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. Votes: 0
David MitchellHumans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. Votes: 0
Joan D. VingeThat's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free. Votes: 0
Russell MeansI think my ancestors had to be enormously strong emotionally and very courageous. Votes: 0
Jim MurphyThe past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children. Votes: 0
Elif SafakRemember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living. Votes: 0
Karen LordThe most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom. Votes: 0
Nick BakayBirth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. Votes: 0
Aaron HillDo not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors. Votes: 0
William Kean SeymourHumans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. Votes: 0
Douglas AdamsYou and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages. Votes: 0
Mark PagelYou'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are. Votes: 0
Marian Wright EdelmanWhat is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultWe do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children Votes: 0
Chief SeattleAs my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. Votes: 0
Butterfly McQueenWe need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. Votes: 0
Maya Angelou...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. Votes: 0
Sonia SanchezNot a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsLincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollOur ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations? Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaThe most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?' Votes: 0
Jonas SalkWhat passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. Votes: 0
James A. BaldwinHave faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaThe larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors? Votes: 0
Steven JohnsonIf I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors. Votes: 0
Mau PiailugEach has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonMy first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellOld Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. Votes: 0
Charles DickensI'm free... to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't. I can. And my children will. Votes: 0
Jefferson SmithWe must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of. Votes: 0
Mikhail SaakashviliTo us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. Votes: 0
Chief SeattleWe live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. Votes: 0
Guy de MaupassantIt is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Votes: 0
PlutarchMy ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutHuman emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. Votes: 0
HannibalWe are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates Votes: 0
Robert MossWe are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music. Votes: 0
Zubin MehtaI would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. Votes: 0
MoliereAs old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors Votes: 0
Bangambiki HabyarimanaOur ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted. Votes: 0
Raymond Charles BarkerThere are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors. Votes: 0
Andre MauroisSweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden. Votes: 0
Carl D. AndersonMy ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us. Votes: 0
Alice WalkerSweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden. Votes: 0
Carl David AndersonThe point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisA man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground. Votes: 0
Henry S. F. CooperIf I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors. Votes: 0
Alice WalkerIf your ancestors cut down all the trees, it's not your fault, but you still don't live in a forest. Votes: 0
Pam OliverWhat is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? Votes: 0
Philip Sidney