Ancestors Quotes

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

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.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

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.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.