Ancestors

Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true I prefer to be.

- Raymond Chandler 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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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.

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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

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

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

- Maya Angelou Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

- Luther Burbank Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We must tell the truth - the (czar's) massacre has become one of the most shameful pages of our history. By burying the innocent victims we want to expiate the sins of our ancestors.

- Boris Yeltsin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

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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 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

The wisdom of our ancestors.

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think about you in every moment and every image of you hurts me horribly. I want to feel every thought, every whisper you say in the deep silence of the eternity of you soul. To be able to cry in me, beside you, beside me in you, to be able to understand why our hearts beat, why we live among moments and not among eternities as if it were different. To be able to understand every smile which breaks in my just like a wave, which finally breaks against the cliff of my eternity through the blood of my ancestors as my misconducts break in your eternity and that of your ancestors.And they want to tell you how much I love you, how much I adore you in this vain world. I know we will never be able to look in the eyes, but only in the hearts.I know they beat against the infinite precisely because they beat even though we both want the infinite and its truth. Any beat opposes the infinite because it measures an infinity, even if it is finite. And then

- Sorin Cerin 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 don't feel like it's right because I feel like all our ancestors came over here and they had to become legal citizens. Why shouldn't every one else I don't care who you are.

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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

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

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

We have completed our mission to the EU, now we are on our way to the Balkans. Our ancestors went on horse back, we are going by plane.

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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.

- Daniel J. Boorstin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

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

- Lucan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Is this a horrible future Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.

- David Brin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Breed is stronger than pasture.

- George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

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