Ancestors

The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.

- Jose Serrano Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Now, they invent them deliberately just to invalidate our ancestors' reasoning, and that is all they are ever going to get out of them.

- Jules H. Poincare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is a feeling of Elizabethan, and there's a feeling of timelessness. My desire is to make the past present, that it speaks to us today. A feeling of ancient ancestors who court and woo each other, so that it's kind of transparent and the audience can enter into this.

- Dean Gilmour Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We live upon the contributions of our ancestors. Nature is a good scavenger. She soon gets rid of her rubbish.

- Alfred Adler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

- John Ciardi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were aquatic, because water is so conductive. But it doesn't work on land - air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.

- James Albert 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

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

- Ralph Ellison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

- Plutarch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them.

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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

- Edmund Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit.

- Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

- James Hillman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

- Joan D. Vinge Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

- K. Chesterton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We have lost our way on our path. It is time to do things in a way that respects our spirit, our ancestors, and where we come from.

- Lisa Brown Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All these ancestors of mine, when they arrived here, there weren't restrictions on them as there are now. Who's to say whether they would have been able to come themselves if there had been restrictions But I'm glad they did, because here I am.

- Jerry Coleman 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

Finding out the religious background of your ancestors will also help you understand their actions and possibly the attitudes that you inherited.

- Shirley Sloat Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

- William Faulkner 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.

- Abdullah Gul Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There has always been opposition to these types of things. When Theodore Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon as a national monument it later was made a national park, my family was among the objectors. Now everybody claims on behalf of their ancestors that they encouraged it. These are places of enormous and enduring value.

- Bruce Babbitt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes