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Quotes About Ancestral

The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.
~ Clarence Day
First of all, Turtle Island is the name of this continent we live on... that's right, not 'America... as in North America,' but the name given by the first peoples of this land.
~ John Densmore
There were things women were better at than men; home was one of them. They carried it with them like an ancestral perfume.
~ Susanne Pari
My rage is a kind of domestic rage. I learned it from my mother Who learned it from her mother before her And so on. Surely the Greeks had a word for this.
~ Suzanne Buffam
His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.
~ Suzanne Collins
Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
~ Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial, the move away from ancestral and natural models, and the loss in robustness owing to complications in the design of everything, the role of Black Swans in increasing.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. You Can't Go Home Again
~ Thomas Wolfe
Only when we began to eat cereals at the start of the agricultural revolution, and most especially when our ancestral food choices were displaced by the 'displacing foods of modern commerce', did the 'modern diseases of lifestyle' begin to emerge in ever-increasing numbers.
~ Tim Noakes
known as Aztlan was to obtain gold and to enrich cultures and races that preceded the Mayas, [and] the forefathers of Aztecs were the people of Aztlan and that the great floods drove them from their original, ancestral homeland." The aliens needed gold—and later silver—exclusively as part of their craft's propulsion system.
~ Timothy Good
The spirit hits them and they follow (My italics) Louis Armstrong Mumbo Jumbo [Mandingo m?-m?-gyo-mb?, "magician who makes the troubled spirits of ancestors go away": m?-m?, grandmother+gyo, trouble+ mb?, to leave.] The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
~ Ishmael Reed
At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.
~ Jack Kerouac
At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince of the Dharma who's lost his ancestral grove and journeys across the spaces between points in the handle of the Big Dipper, trying to find it again.
~ Jack Kerouac
At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, are big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.
~ Jack Kerouac
At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince of the Dharma who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.
~ Jack Kerouac
Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
~ E. O. Wilson
The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack? 'Cuz, yeah, didn't everybody's ancestors rise up and destroy enemies.
~ Christine Feehan
How was she going to tell him her family came from a long line of powerful women who drew power from the universe around them and that prophecies several hundreds of years old always came true?
~ Christine Feehan
We are the subjects, and so is everything around us, of all manner of subtle and inexplicable influences: and if our ancestors attached too much importance to these ill-understood arcana of the night-side of nature, we have attached too little.
~ Catherine Crowe
All coral in every world think of Australia the way that you and I think of Mesopotamia - it is the ancestral paradise of their civilization and they send it Valentines each February.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
~ Margaret Walker
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
~ Maya Angelou
But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien