(62 quotes found)
“I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.”
Larry Neal
“We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.”
Maya Angelou
“My ancestors didn't come over in the Mayflower -- they met the boat.”
Will Rogers
“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”
Charles Dudley Warner
“All these ancestors of mine, when they arrived here, there weren't restrictions on them as there are now. Who's to say whether they would have been able to come themselves if there had been restrictions? But I'm glad they did, because here I am.”
Jerry Coleman
“Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors”
Plato
“We should never forget that all of our ancestors were once strangers here.”
Michael Crespi
“Because she looks so real and natural, there is something unsettling about her. She's our direct ancestor, so you expect to see something human, but she is not a human and not an ape, but something in between.”
Robert Martin
“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.”
Dhen Dancel
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
Eskimo Proverb
