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Ancestral Quotes
Lines connecting us to our deepest roots.
This page gathers quotes on the ancestral, from a childhood fascination with monsters described as primal and ancestral to the ancestral environment that shaped human psychology. For more on family roots, see the related Beautiful quotes.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was way into 'Voltron,' Ray Harryhausen: anything with giant monsters, I was really into. Even dinosaurs - for a while, I wanted to be a paleontologist. So it's almost like primal, ancestral mythology to me, this fascination with monsters.
- Find
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I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.
- Dad
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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.
- Influence
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I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.
- Important
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Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.
- Climate Change
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I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the continent of Africa. People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their ancestral homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living.
- Memories
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The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
- Devices
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I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The way they hang out with no recording devices and just sing songs with each other.
- May
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We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.
- Evolution
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Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.
- Environment
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High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
- Me
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Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.
- Gathered
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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
- Goals
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
- People
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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.
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020