(62 quotes found)
“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
“So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“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
“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
“GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
Ambrose Bierce
“To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root”
Chinese Proverbs
“Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one”
Howard Kenneth Nixon
“I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.”
William Lyon Phelps
