Ancestors

If you come to help us,for the moment,you will not gain any profit. We have no oil. We have nothing to offer to you. But the Tibet issue is moral issue. And your American ancestors, like Lincoln or Jefferson,I think they stood firmly on moral principle. American nuclear weapons and economic power alone will not,will not create more popularity. I don't admire your weapons. I really admire your principles, democracy, freedom, and liberty. Now, your policy, I think, must be guided by these things.

- Dalai Lama Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every Universe exists depending on the Knowledge that reflects it and not in its absence. It is absolutely true that our ancestors saw this universe before and after we were born and this is why we think that the Universe exists irrespective of our existence. It is an illusion as big as the Illusion of our Life with our entire universe, because our ancestors too saw the world through these senses that we have too, they were human being too, a part of the human race. For the members of a tribe, for instance, their Universe expands up to the borders on their Knowledge of this world. If these borders are very small, the world will be very small and the other way around. Our Universe will look completely different to an animal, even if we think it sees the same images we do. It is true that we are aware, in the Illusion of our Life that the animal sees the same images, but he will interpret them differently, depending on his level of competence, which will entail a different image of the Universe. The same happens with human beings, who think based on a Logical Coefficient 2 and cannot conceive a world where the beings think and see an universe based on Logical Coefficient superior to the one of the man. That world and the universe that will include it will be completely different to the one that reflects and includes our world.Then the meaning of the manaas existence in this world which is for us vanity of the vanities, for a different thinking belonging to a different Logical Coefficient, can be something different.

- Sorin Cerin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

- Maya Angelou Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We did not inherit the land from our forefathers- we are borrowing it from our children.

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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

- Thich Hanh Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

- Paul Robeson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

- Isaac Barrow Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

- Luther Burbank Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Those who are pleasing to You meditate on You. They practice the Mantra of the Holy.They themselves swim across, and they save all their ancestors and families as well.

- Granth Sahib Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

- Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

- Elayne Boosler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

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Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

- Lucan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

- Anita Desai Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge.

- Edward Young Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.

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Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

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

- Sallust Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You don't have to know much about the Civil War to be intrigued about a place where one of your forefathers stood and fought and suffered and triumphed. The more remote the site, the closer they'll feel to their ancestors.

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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

- Plutarch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

- Mikhail Saakashvili Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We're trying to help people understand that people come here for the same reason that our ancestors did opportunity.

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