Quotes About Ancestry

When a man dies, and his children die with him, then he is dead entirely, leaving nothing to show.

All the different Soninke clans—the Sisse, Kante, Sylla, and others—trace their ancestry to Dinga's sons and daughters.

People are so proud of their names that they strive to perpetuate them at any cost.

without a doubt, that we evolved from apes.

without a doubt, that we evolved from apes." Langdon nodded. "I'm

No doubt in the great scheme of things we are all of us the offspring of murderers. Right?

Everybody is begotten and points backwards, deeper down in the depths of beginnings, the bottoms and abysses of the well of the past.

This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.

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No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

I didn't know what to tell her.I wished I could say that like the House of Atreus or Cadmus we were suffering for the sinesof our forefathers, or fulfilling an ancient Greek oracle.But I had no answer for her, or for myself.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal, did you know that?

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal, did you know that?" I

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.

What I am has been to a considerable extent determined by what my forebears were, by how they chose to treat this place while they lived in it;

The man of whom I once was pleased to say, "He is my grandfather," has become the dead man who was my grandfather. He was, and is no more. And this is a part of the great mystery we call time.

no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.

All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.

in a few thousand years, I who regard you will also have sprung from the loins of African kings.

ancient television and withdrew a silver-black vacuum tube. "See this? Part of my DNA, sort of. . . ." He tossed the thing into the shadows and Case heard it pop and tinkle. "You're always building models. Stone circles. Cathedrals. Pipe-organs. Adding machines.

My father was an historian

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.