154 Ancestors Quotes for You to Enjoy

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead. David Henry Hwang

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read. Diane Ackerman

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

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor. Donald Johanson

Opportunity Three Other Later Ancestors Detailed Had Observations New Until She Make Years Discoveries Lab Very Human Realized Really Fossil Comparisons Species Four

I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa. Donald Johanson

Work Teenage Back Our Ancestors Days Undergraduate Always Been Going Human Africa Being Wanted Interest Midwestern Prehistory Specialize Early

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. Douglas Alexander

Future Building Worship Ancestors About More Attraction Talking Than Holds

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Government Ancestors Boston Arrested Expecting Establish Created Fully Rebelled

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. Edsger Dijkstra

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The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I was born with was French: D'Orsay; perhaps an ancestor was amongst those troops that marched to this evocative anthem for the first time as they entered Paris 200 years ago! Engelbert Humperdinck

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I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory. F. Sionil Jose

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. Francis Herbert Hedge

Man Past Own Every Ancestors He His Heir Fortune Every Man

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. Frank Herbert

Pay Our Ancestors Escape Violence

Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist. Frans de Waal

Eyes Old Long Our Ancestors Systems Thousand Moral Thousand Years Only Had Institutions Couple Years Very Current Which Really Biologist

I believe I am connecting to angels and spirit guides and ancestors. All of that is falling under the category of God and the energy presence of God, and that is what I can tap into when I tune in and slow down. Gabrielle Bernstein

God Slow Energy Down Believe Guides Ancestors Spirit Angels Category Am Falling Tap Tune Connecting Presence

Our African ancestors were the first to engage in breathing. By that logic, I think by breathing today, we are engaging in cultural appropriation of the first Homo sapiens. And so the only way I will ask you to stop being racist is to suffocate - to stop breathing. Gad Saad

Today You Will First Think Our Appropriation Way Ancestors Logic Only Were Cultural Stop African Being Breathing Ask Engage Engaging Sapiens Homo Homo Sapiens

Our ancestors didn't need any genetic enhancements to be able to sit for twelve hours a day and eat fatty, sugary foods, but we need enhancements that handle that altered environment. George M. Church

Day Sit Our Fatty Ancestors Able Eat Foods Environment Genetic Hours Altered Handle Any Twelve Need

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that. George M. Church

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I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor! George Takei

Great Several Ancestors Definitely Run Like Look Times Marathon

Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries. Gordon Brown

Prosperity Evidence Ancestors Ninth Had Almost Around Left Centuries Sweden Sea Certainly England Search Travelled

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. Greg Iles

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Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. Guru Nanak

Happiness Service Alone Wife Faithful Depend Ancestors Religious Oneself Rites Highest Performance Bliss Due Offspring Heavenly

I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 18, 1948, as the elder son of Karl and Frieda Michel. My ancestors lived in that area for generations, mainly as farmers. Hartmut Michel

Son Ancestors Born Area Federal Part Generations Mainly July Germany Republic Elder Karl Farmers Lived

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. Henry Louis Gates

Army Revolution Ancestors Out Sons Continental American Turns American Revolution Fought

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