(62 quotes found)
“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Listen closely to the winds, for they carry messages, of those long ago”
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“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.”
William Gaddis
“[It] is not a monkey, not an ape and not a human, but it's a common ancestor of them all.”
Russell L. Ciochon
“As a nation, a society, a family and an individual, we must be grateful to our great ancestors who dedicated their lives to laying the infrastructure of our livelihood today. Let’s continue their path and build upon it.”
Master Jin Kwon
“The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings.”
“PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.”
Dorothy Day
