154 Ancestors Quotes for You to Enjoy

Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience. Lyall Watson

Change Experience Water Made Our Air Our Lives Liberating Ancestors Range Respiration Easy Staying Constraints Having Remain Freed New Reach Within Wet Refuge Biggest Reproduction Sensory Breathing Us Expose Whole Lives

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

Example Other Our Ancestors Examples Understood Role Role Models Models Meaning Meaning Of Who Orientation Many Including Inner Jesus

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages. Mark Pagel

You Greedy Our Ancestors Been Here Savages

Ledger art represents a spirit which has lasted through the hardships and turmoil. It is my goal and ambition that this style of pictograph art continues to pay tribute to the perseverance of my ancestors who adapted and created works of art during a period of life changing turmoil and injustice. Michael Horse

Life Art Injustice Perseverance Hardships Style Ambition Pay Lasted Changing Ancestors Tribute Spirit Life-Changing Through Period Goal Represents Which Turmoil Created Pay Tribute Who Works Adapted

I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids. Mohamed Al-Fayed

Me You Animal Building Skin Ancestors Running Pyramids Around Were Passport Who Filipino Two British Need

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents and grandparents. Blacks were shackled for the early part of that relay race, and although many of the fetters have come off, whites have developed a huge lead. Nicholas Kristof

Financial Parents Our Ancestors Relay Shackled Blacks Relying Lead Developed Part Come Although Were Off Huge Human Race Capital Grandparents Shoulders Stand Whites Many Early

It's hard for me to believe that the KKK still exists, especially knowing all my ancestors have been through. I feel like the history and meaning of all we have been through has been trashed. Normani Kordei

Me History Believe Ancestors Has-Been Through Feel Like Knowing Still Been Exists Meaning Meaning Of Hard Trashed

Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now. Octavio Paz

Time Speed Our Distant Once Ancestors Neighbor Posterity Archaic Picasso He Him Without Permits Go Going Happen Happening Places Centuries Next-Door Neighbor Now Letting Letting Go Belong Here Two

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any! Olivia Williams

Eyes Bit Ancestors East Out Constantly Shade Anglo-Saxon Point Well Because Mixture Wondered Trying American Any Often Artists Spanish

So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago. Pardis Sabeti

Today Me People World Living Ancestors Has-Been Archaeological Physical Record Data Chart Physical World Investigate Deluge Genetic New Territory Been Years Years Ago Get New Territory Happened Forms Much Really Explored Lets

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health. Paul Stamets

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. Pete du Pont

So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to added complexity. Interracial amalgamation will produce some individuals whose features diverge from those commonly ascribed to the races of their ancestors. Randall Kennedy

Will Long Parents Unions Added Ancestors Those Complexity Some Rise Give Features Stems Individuals Lineage Same Commonly Race Procreation Races Produce Appearance Whose

My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food. Richard Flanagan

Food Ancestors Van Stealing Came Land

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small. Robert Green Ingersoll

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. Robert Louis Stevenson

Own Tree Top Ancestors His Each

Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards. Robert Shea

Care Our Indeed Ancestors Hunt Eaten Learned Another How Years Years Ago Up Ended Being Packs Millions Millions Of Years

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

Me Ancestors Dinosaurs Seems Advanced Also Were Replaced Mammal Warm

My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged. Robert Whittaker

Strength Mother Father Ancestors Both Take Australian Privileged Really

It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists. Robert Winston

History Bible Monotheism Ancestors Developed Instant Clear Became Accepted Were Norm Undoubtedly Very Gradually Jewish

When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches. Roxane Gay

Me Parents Country Took Our Summer Everywhere Ancestors Brothers About Beach Beaches Could Haiti Particular Haitian Know Because Island Snobby Child Get Even

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