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Ancestors Quotes

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

Light Powerful Ancestors Either Shed

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

Thought Alive Why Worst Ancestors

I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.

John Edgar Wideman

Women Me Trying Way Ancestors Sense

Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.

Truth People Website Ancestors First

I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.

Love Speak Meet Ancestors Able Them

For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

Christopher McDougall

Run Ancestors Heat Spread Planet

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

America New Three Others Ancestors

The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.

Richard Dawkins

World Place Ancestors Never First

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

James Henry Breasted

Great Lonely Heritage Land Ancestors

Our ancestors didn't need any genetic enhancements to be able to sit for twelve hours a day and eat fatty, sugary foods, but we need enhancements that handle that altered environment.

George M. Church

Day Environment Ancestors Need Eat

I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create.

Wife I Can Create Ancestors Never

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

King Ancestors Slave Who His Had

All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.

Family Children Time Ancestors Slave

We must strive to become good ancestors.

Good Become Strive Ancestors Must

Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.

Past Remember Ancestors Worship Our

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

Money Rich Ancestors Over Gone Left

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.

Robert T. Bakker

Me Warm Ancestors Dinosaurs Seems

My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.

History War Red Ancestors Stick Who

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

Claude Vorilhon

History Mistakes Nothing Ancestors

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

Nature Health Unique Ancestors Dozen

In France, when there was a war, we fought and our ancestors fought, though many had real reason to flee the Germans.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

War Ancestors Real Reason France

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

Soul Forget Ancestors Own

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that.

George M. Church

I Am Ancestors Embarrassed Percent

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Country Ancestors Need Well Who His

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