Quotes About Ancestors

Every country has its sacred culture.

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met 'em at the boat.

You and I have to rejoice that we have not to answer for our fathers' crimes, neither shall we do right to charge them one to another. We can only regret it, and flee from it, and from henceforth, let peace and righteousness be written upon our hearts and hands forever.

we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...

Pardon, old fathers.

And now he is singing a bard's curse upon you, O brother abbot, and upon your father and your mother, and your grandfather and your grandmother, nd upon all your relations.' Is he cursing in rhyme?' He is cursing in rhyme, and with two assonances in every line of his curse.' ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

the history of any family is a history of death and misfortune.

a timid reverence for the decisions of our ancestors, as if it were the nature of the mind always too degenerate and never to advance.

Great Tamerlane carried the lives of his ancestors into the field with him, in which he used to read before he gave battle, that he might be stirred up not to stain the blood of his family by cowardice or any unworthy behaviour in fight.

And afterwards the People did wander over that Country of Silence, and made visit and honour to their Ancestors, if such were deserving.

TRADITIONALLY THE ANISHINAABE were a quiet people. Before the whites came, they lived in the silence of great woods and more often than not, the voices they heard were not human. The wind spoke. The water sang. All sound had purpose. When an Anishinaabe approached the wigwam of another, he respectfully made noise to announce his coming. Thunder, therefore, was the respectful way of the storm in announcing its approach. Spirit and purpose in all things. For all creation, respect.

Misers aren't fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors.

DNA analyses of modern people suggest that the human population declined dramatically, to perhaps only a few hundred. When we talk about all men and women being brothers and sisters, and people of all types being closely related, we are not just being poetic and romantic. Compared to other species, humans exhibit very little genetic diversity, a trait that stems back to that time, not too long ago, when a small band of survivors had to repopulate humanity. We

Tu Fu's wandering through the thousands of miles of ancestor peaks was always the Tao/Cosmos open to itself- ancestor wandering itself and gazing into itself; thinking itself and feeling itself, lamenting itself, and celebrating itself, writing poems about itself.

Thirdly. It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors, who transmitted them with that inviolable sanction and authority, which always attend received opinions.

Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good 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 great grandma always told me to drink a lot of milk because it's good for the skin.