Guy de Maupassant
Novelist
"We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors."
Ancestor quotes
Ancestor
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Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground."
Russell Means
Activist, Actor
"True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself."
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents."
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"When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor."
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"I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop."
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"My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us."
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"That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free."
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"The wisdom of our ancestors."
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"If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors."
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"I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically."
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"My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors."
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"Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope."
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"Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride."
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"My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now."
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"I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married."
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"If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors."
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"Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me."
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"Every action has an ancestor of a thought."
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"Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers."
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