Quotes About Ancestors

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

My own forefathers arrived in America in 1620 on the Mayflower.

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.

Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.

if I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

Pentru orice exist? un înlocuitor,artifical,jalnic,ÅŸi pentru str?moÅŸi,c?snicie ÅŸi urmaÅŸi.Îi creezi tu însuÅ£i în chinurile astea,ÅŸi dac? nu cumva ai pierit tu însuÅ£i în aceste chinuri,pân? la urm? lipsa de speran?? a unor asemenea false leacuri tot are s? te omoare.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes. Nuclear devices activated, and the machine keeps pushing time through the cogs, like paste into strings into paste again, and only the machine keeps using time to make time to make time. And when the machine stops, time was an illusion that we created free will.

human beings traditionally have great trouble in coping with the concept of random chance. People tend on the whole to want to assign occurrences of remarkable good or bad luck to agency, either human or superhuman. It is important to emphasize, however, that malevolent humans have been only one kind of agent to whom such causation has been attributed: the others include deities, non-human spirits that inhabit the terrestrial world, or the spirits of dead human ancestors.

And so to be afraid of entering the cemetery by night was to fear not the loving ancestors who lay buried, but the gut kick of our history, which I was bracing to absorb. The old cemetery was filled with its complications.

She told the holy stories and the funny stories, the aadizookaanag that explained how the world came into being, how it continued to be made.

Poiché univa all'immaginazione la metodicità scientifica, era conscio del fatto che l'uomo moderno, quando non esistono leggi, tende costantemente a sfogare gli istinti più tenebrosi, che risalgono ai nostri scimmieschi, primitivi antenati, nella vita ordinaria, e nelle manifestazioni di culto.

The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments.

The Chinese alive today are reincarnations of torturers. The wronged souls of the past will haunt us for ever. We must pay for the sins of our ancestors.

cousa é não achar já quem se lembre de meus pais, e de que modo me há de encarar o próprio esquecimento.

Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors

I began going through dozens of boxes stored away in her apartment and her art studio. They were filled with journals, and documents, and letters. She saved everything. Handwritten notes from her aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and schoolbooks my grandfather Reginald Vanderbilt doodled in as a child. I found old wills and financial records, and as I read the contents of these files stained by time and mold, I began to hear the voices of those people I never knew.

Sombras de antepasados olvidados, trad. de Miguel Muntaner Pascual y María del Mar Moya Tasis, Barcelona, Planeta, 1993.]

From the perspective of faith, it is better to ape the behaviour of one's ancestors than to find creative ways to uncover new truths in the present.