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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.
Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.
Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.
It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.
The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.
I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
It's part of my DNA as a Portuguese. Like many of my ancestors, there's that need to discover the world - exploration is in my blood.
We are a country where the ancestors of slaves and newcomers escaping tyranny and violence can rise to the highest positions in the land.
Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked.
I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.
What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.
It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.
One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.
Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.
We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.
Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
In China there is a holiday around the death of your ancestors where everyone goes to the cemetery. It's a celebratory thing. It's very colorful.
A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.
Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.
I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials.
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free.
I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
Our ancestors went through so much in a fight for us to vote. So I believe that we should engage in all civic participation. It's healthy engagement.
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.
