Ancestors Quotes

It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions. This slight-of-hand has been the cause of countless blood-shed and has been found at the root of innumerable acts of evil. The argument continues today, as to which religion the true god belongs, when what would be most healing and empowering is to free god from the shackles of religious limitation and judgment. It is by emancipating god from the ignorance of our ancestors that we become empowered to explore and express our own relationship with what god may or may not be.

Steve Maraboli

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

Henry Louis

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

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.

Proverb

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

Jonathan Swift

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Joyce Carol Oates

Just because I don't believe in YOUR God doesn't mean I don't believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors.

Steve Maraboli

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

Will Rogers

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Junius, letter to London Publick

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

James Russell Lowell

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Proverb

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Plato

Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.

Luther Burbank

Breed is stronger than pasture.

George Eliot

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Fred A. Allen

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Ambrose Bierce