154 Ancestors Quotes for You to Enjoy

In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors. Rudolf Steiner

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. Sallust

Light Ancestors Distinguished Concealment Powerful Merits Forbid Shed Either Descendants

The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution has been arrived at by completely different routes. Simon Conway Morris

Ancestors Possessed Ancient Eye Has-Been Evolved Possibly Independently Solution Could Clearly Arrived Camera Been Quite Common Different Routes

We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold. Simon McBurney

I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual expansion of the brain; there was an expansion of the complexity of tools. Steven Pinker

You Smart Made Think Tools Our Ancestors Complexity See Divine Brain Expansion Gradual Spark Suddenly Species

I always remember the teachings of our ancestors: respect for God, teacher, government, and both parents. Even after I became president, I have not changed in this matter in the slightest. I hold these teachings in high esteem, and I believe in their truth. Suharto

Truth Teacher God Government Respect Remember Matter Parents Believe Changed President Our Slightest Ancestors High Both Became Always Hold After Esteem Teachings Even

My grandfather was originally from the south of China before he emigrated to Malaysia pre-World War II. And I wanted to learn more about the history of the country of my ancestors. I knew I wanted a narrative set in contemporary Beijing. I was really interested in the effect of the rapid social and economic change on ordinary citizens in China. Susan Barker

War History Change Country Before Ancestors Rapid Citizens About More Economic He Knew Contemporary Learn Narrative Malaysia South Effect Beijing The History Of Wanted Ordinary China Interested Social Grandfather Really Originally Set

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves. Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think it's impossible to predict the future but it is possible to look at the past and see how one can do differently from what one's ancestors have done and learn from their mistakes, and one can see how even though there are enormous forces which stop one doing what one wants to, there are little holes in which the individual can do something. Theodore Zeldin

Future Impossible Mistakes Past Predict Think Enormous Ancestors Though Possible See Something Individual Look Learn Forces How Doing Done Stop Wants Which Holes Little Even Differently

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. William Gaddis

World Binary Live Other Birth Ancestors See Entire Computer Piano Yes Than Option Refuge Where Grandfather Player Nightmare

Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived mainly in East Africa, and you had the Neanderthal in Europe, Homo Erectus in part of Asia, and so forth. Yuval Noah Harari

You Other Our Ancestors East About Had Part Mainly Until Least Were Years Years Ago Five Africa Asia Forth Planet Sapiens Europe Lived Species Homo Homo Sapiens Humans

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors. Zhu Rongji

People Think Ancestors Betrayed Forgotten

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music. Zubin Mehta

Music Our Indebted Ancestors Musically Years Left Us Speaking

Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice. Uzodinma Iweala

Events Sometimes Valuable Important Advice Living Imagination Ancestors More Directly Both Mythological Dead Always Important Role Offering Role Often Short African Famous Influence Literary Whether Figures Popular Works Novels Played Humans

I've been really inspired by my roots - my ancestors and Irish history. Kate Nash

History Ancestors Inspired Been Irish Really Roots

Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a whole string of chance events - some happening in the environments our ancestors inhabited, and some inside their own bodies, including random mutations in their DNA. Alice Roberts

Events Random Inevitable Own Our Unlikely String Ancestors Evolution Mutations Inside Some DNA Environments Existence Modern Depended Just Happening Far Bodies Inhabited Your Whole Including Species Humans Chance

The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place. Richard Dawkins

World First Ancestors Bereft Spiders Would-Be Never Supplied Well First Place Male Mating Died After Place Whose

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors. Cole Younger

People Will Long Ancestors Respects Section I Was Born Some Born Seemed Long Line Take Instance Instinct County Missouri Line Western Very Jackson Being Where Fighters Inherited Peculiar

I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers to being farmers, and when great migrations of people spread languages - and genes - across Europe. Alice Roberts

Love Great Change Age People Made Our Ancestors I Love Bronze Genes Particularly Spread Were Times Revolutionary Being Migration Prehistory Across Languages Farmers Europe

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