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Quotes About Ancestral

Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.
~ Christopher Guest
basic Khamitic diet consisted of beans, lentils, peas, barley, millet, nuts, fruits (such as dates, melons, and pomegranates), vegetables (such as onions, cabbage, and peppers), and healing herbs such as gotu kola, nettle, aloe, garlic, and parsley. And when they were invaded by Asian nomadic shepherds, the Heq Shaasu (Hyksos), more flesh foods entered the diet, thus sowing the seeds of our ultimate deterioration.
~ Queen Afua
Keto is the only diet that heals you internally because absence of carbs means no sugar in your body, as carb transforms into sugar. It is the diet which was followed by our ancestors and they lived a healthy and a happy life.
~ Zareen Khan
the chipped plates might have been disinterred from some kitchen midden near an inhabited lake; and the chops recalled times more ancient still. They brought forcibly to one's mind the night of ages when the primeval man, evolving the first rudiments of cookery from his dim consciousness, scorched lumps of flesh at a fire of sticks...
~ Joseph Conrad
Where you find the greatest good, there you will also find greatest Evil, for Evil likes Paradise every bit as much as Good does. What makes the best environment for Clematis armandi makes a lovely home for leaf hoppers. A place where Joe Allston hopes to enjoy his retirement turns out to be Tom Weld's ancestral acres and a place attractive to Caliban.
~ Wallace Stegner
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.
~ Wilbur Wright
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
~ Wilbur Wright
O movimento indígena – como instância política – cresceu, e se multiplicaram as organizações comunitárias em busca de reivindicações específicas, que culminaram com a necessidade de formar profissionais qualificados em diversas áreas do conhecimento. Essas pessoas – homens e mulheres – formam o que hoje chamo de Indígenas em Movimento, pois atuam de forma autônoma na sociedade brasileira sem abrir mão de sua ancestralidade.
~ Daniel Munduruku
Os tupis – assim chamados por causa da língua – tinham uma tradição agrícola e se fixavam mais em regiões de solo fértil. Essa prática serviu como desculpa para a escravização desses indígenas, que foram submetidos a maus-tratos e desconsiderados em sua sabedoria ancestral. Já os povos nômades – e que, portanto, pouco sabiam sobre plantar – acabaram sendo perseguidos, maltratados, exterminados e desqualificados para o trabalho.
~ Daniel Munduruku
Um povo sem memória ancestral é um povo perdido no tempo e no espaço.
~ Daniel Munduruku
The lords of the waterfront evinced little or no interest in their ancestral homeland, though their story makes for a meaningful chapter in the saga of the Irish diaspora.
~ James T. Fisher
In the American Southwest, for example, parts of the great Anasazi road system and its way stations were closed in the thirteenth century by burning brush and smashing sacred pots along its length, when the ancestral Pueblo people abandoned the region.
~ Douglas Preston
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
~ Edward Coke
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
~ Michael Pollan
Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these
~ Michael Pollan
Everybody knows we're entitled to one Jerusalem. History reveals very simply that this is our land from the days of the Bible.
~ Jackie Mason
The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.
~ Felicia Hemans
Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.
~ Roman Coppola
It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
~ Gertrude Atherton
trophy room. "This room is on the site where my grandmother spent her very first night here," Stax said. "That was just a hole hacked out of the hillside. Grandmother didn't even have a bed. She huddled inside all night, listening to monsters howl on the other side of a dirt wall. And look at it
~ Jason Fry
At sound and scent of the approaching huddle of sheep, Treve leaped to his feet; queer ancestral instincts tugging at the back of his alert young brain. In all his eight months of life he had never seen nor smelt a sheep. But his Scottish ancestors, for a hundred generations, had earned their right to live by tending such creatures as these which came trooping past the shack. Something far stronger than himself urged the put to action.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will:
~ William Wordsworth
Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?
~ David Pearce
The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.
~ Austin Osman Spare