| Quotation 1 : | ANCESTORS
"I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line." |
| Ziggy Marley |
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| Quotation 2 : | ANCESTORS
"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 |
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| Quotation 3 : | ANCESTORS
"Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children." |
| Wilfrid Laurier |
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| Quotation 4 : | ANCESTORS
"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors." |
| Plutarch |
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| Quotation 5 : | ANCESTORS
"OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us." |
| James Nasmyth |
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| Quotation 6 : | ANCESTORS
"Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers." |
| Roh Moo-hyun |
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| Quotation 7 : | ANCESTORS
"Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal." |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Quotation 8 : | ANCESTORS
"Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors." |
| Max Delbruck |
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| Quotation 9 : | ANCESTORS
"Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits." |
| Sallust |
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| Quotation 10 : | ANCESTORS
"We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching." |
| Paul Tsongas |
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| Quotation 11 : | ANCESTORS
"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 Nhat Hanh |
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| Quotation 12 : | ANCESTORS
"“Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors; we borrow it from our Children.”" |
| Ancient Indian Proverb |
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| Quotation 13 : | ANCESTORS
"“When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.”" |
| John O'Donohue |
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| Quotation 14 : | ANCESTORS
"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." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 15 : | ANCESTORS
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." |
| Helen Keller |
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| Quotation 16 : | ANCESTORS
"Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood" |
| Isaac Watts |
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| Quotation 17 : | ANCESTORS
"Do not remove the ancient landmark that your ancestors set up." |
| Bible: Hebrew |
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| Quotation 18 : | ANCESTORS
"All his successors gone before him have don’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may." |
| William Shakespeare |
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| Quotation 19 : | ANCESTORS
"How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother’s life?" |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Quotation 20 : | ANCESTORS
"Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges." |
| Annie Lennox |
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| Quotation 21 : | ANCESTORS
"Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people." |
| Chief Seattle |
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| Quotation 22 : | ANCESTORS
"I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapab" |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| Quotation 23 : | ANCESTORS
"We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies." |
| ~Shirley Abbott |
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| Quotation 24 : | ANCESTORS
"Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them." |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| Quotation 25 : | ANCESTORS
"The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life." |
| Leopold Senghor |
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| Quotation 26 : | ANCESTORS
"In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man’s skin,—seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his li" |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Quotation 27 : | ANCESTORS
"A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants." |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Quotation 28 : | ANCESTORS
"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 |
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| Quotation 29 : | ANCESTORS
"He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD" |
| Bible: Hebrew |
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| Quotation 30 : | ANCESTORS
"... no human being is master of his fate, and ... we are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase." |
| Agnes E. Meyer |
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| Quotation 31 : | ANCESTORS
"Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in" |
| — Bill Bryson |
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| Quotation 32 : | ANCESTORS
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" |
| — Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Quotation 33 : | ANCESTORS
"Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them." |
| — Suzanne Collins |
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| Quotation 34 : | ANCESTORS
"Don't be afraid of StarClan. They will understand about Brokentail. You will be honored by our warrior ancestors for your loyalty toy your Clanmates and for your endless courage. So many cats owe their lives to you. Cinderpelt would have died after her ac" |
| — Erin Hunter |
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| Quotation 35 : | ANCESTORS
"At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived" |
| — Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Quotation 36 : | ANCESTORS
"Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination toward" |
| — Veronica Roth |
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| Quotation 37 : | ANCESTORS
"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner." |
| — Douglas Adams |
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| Quotation 38 : | ANCESTORS
"Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals – although a case could be made for the dolphins – because they seldom grow up. Behavioral traits such" |
| — Tom Robbins |
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