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Ancestors Quotes

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

Balance Ancestors Human Own Fragile

My own personal melting pot has no room for Hendrix or heavy metal, filled as it is with European ancestors such as Debussy, Sibelius, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and Ligeti.

Personal My Own Ancestors Heavy Metal

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Blue Ancestors Enemies Up English

I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa.

Donald Johanson

Work Back Early Africa Ancestors

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Humanity Know Will Ancestors Line

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

Richard Dawkins

Time Ancestors First Cells Bacteria

All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.

Respect Immigrants Admire Ancestors

Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries.

Sea Search Prosperity Ancestors Left

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Charles Dudley Warner

Ignorance Generation Ancestors Own

My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.

Roots American Back Ancestors More

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.

People Detail Know Ancestors Same

As I got more involved in music, one of the things that made me excited, from the time I was a child, was that clear link between our ancestors and the sounds we hear today.

Music Today Time Child Me Ancestors

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

Live Innovation Ancestors More Point

Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.

Birds Woods Find Ancestors Nuts Set

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Robert Anton Wilson

Not Perfect Perfect Ancestors Even

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

Mikheil Saakashvili

Dream Create Ancestors Georgia Must

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

Place Resting Ancestors Ground Ashes

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Glory Ancestors Our Indeed Thing

When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.

Richard Dawkins

Today Fast Run Ancestors First Them

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.

Challenges Way Ancestors Strengths

I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese.

Great Ancestors Meat Cook Make Like

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

Moon Think Name Trying Ancestors

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

George Herbert Mead

Evil Hands Find Way Ancestors

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

Men Wilderness Stop Lost Ancestors

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