Quotes About Ancestors

My ancestors in this hemisphere were, by law, chattel slaves. In the U.S., they were chattel slaves for two and a half centuries—at least 10 generations. I used to think I knew what that meant. Now I realize that I can't begin to imagine the many terrible things that it must have done to them. How did they survive it all and keep their humanity? Certainly, they were never intended to keep it, just as we weren't.

Joseph sighed. "I don't understand why the sight of you should scare me so," Joseph said. He did not sound frightened. "You don't look that threatening. Just … very different." "Different is threatening to most species," Nikanj answered. "Different is dangerous. It might kill you. That was true to your animal ancestors and your nearest animal relatives. And it's true for you.

Maybe we'll evolve to a point where fear as an experience is no longer instinctual, but rather an emotion we use to enrich our understanding of why our human ancestors killed each other when they could have loved each other. One day we'll be holding hands instead of grudges; we'll eliminate our territorial circuits and know what love is. One day we'll be holding hands instead of M-16s.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Gdyby wszystkie narody miaÅ'y nagle upomnie? siÄ™ o terytoria, gdzie ?yli ich praprzodkowie tysiÄ…ce lat wczeÅ›niej, Å›wiat staÅ'by siÄ™ domem wariatów".

because we live in Mexico City, we make rounds with the spirits of Huitzilopochtli

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

Gods of my fathers," Deoch said reverently. "Keep her always so: unchanging, past my understanding, and safe from harm.

I liked the immediacy, the transmutation of energy. I liked the task of drawing from oneself. One's ancestors. One's God. To be a human saxophone. 'Birdland' is an example of how a lyric is composed in the studio. It is the result of the trust built between musicians, requiring communal selflessness in order to draw from the collective intelligence.

It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father, your ancestors taking to you and through you. Some of it is primal, some of it is hallucinatory bullshit. That madness those boys rapping ain't nothing but urban folklore. They retelling stories passed down from chicken coop to apartment stoop to Ford coupe. Hear that rhyme, boy. Shit, I could get down and rap if I had to. MC Big Mama Osteoporosis in the house.

Wrangham believes the cooking of food began during the time of Homo erectus, a human ancestor that lived between 1.6 million and 1.9 million years ago.

I was worrying about the milk, about my children falling in love, about the creatures who crawled through the dark towards us, their ancestors, their loving assassins, breathing 'Why?' like a cold wind.

The Hill People have an interesting relationship with the surrounding states. The people of the valleys view them as "living ancestors," even though they have formed as a response to the valley civilizations. They are post-state, not pre-state, but the ideology of the state refuses to recognize such a category as "post-state" because the state supposes itself to be the pinnacle of progress.

inside so as not to offend the ancestors.

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,

This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.

This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abrahamís brother Nahor.

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam. Timna was Lotanís sister.