(62 quotes found)
“They ... represent the probable immediate ancestors of anatomically modern humans. Their anatomy and antiquity constitute strong evidence of modern-human emergence in Africa,”
Tim White
“Mostly, we are amateur historians. We try to live like our ancestors or forefathers.”
Wade Reynolds
“They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them”
Danish Proverb
“Worshippers of the demigods go to the demigods, the worshippers of the ancestors go to the ancestors, and the worshippers of the ghosts go to the ghosts, but My devotees come to Me (and are not born again).”
Bhagavad Gita
“Mr. Lincoln, I believe your grandfather was a farmer in Pennsylvania,”
Benjamin Franklin
“I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.”
Don Marquis
“A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start”
“Although modern humans must now rely on dogs to sniff out drugs and other contraband at airports, our early ancestors may have been capable of the job themselves!”
Yoav Gilad
“DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at "men who live in these degenerate days," which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread --a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved.”
Ambrose Bierce
