- Nov 07, 2020
Ancestors Quotes
Lines honoring the people who came before us.
Several quotes here trace gratitude toward earlier generations and the traditions they passed down, a natural companion to our family quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ancestors are Highland Scots, and my father's home in north Alabama is so much like northwest Arkansas. I have the same allergies in both places.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
- Boston
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every social detail they needed to know in their heads.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
- Nov 07, 2020
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020