“I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.”
Larry Neal
“My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.”
Will Rogers
“Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.”
Douglas Adams
“The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who...looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...on the infinite highway of the air.”
Wilbur Wright
“Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.”
Martine Vermeulen
“We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.”
Milan Kundera
“So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
