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Ancestors Quotes

I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 18, 1948, as the elder son of Karl and Frieda Michel. My ancestors lived in that area for generations, mainly as farmers.

Son Born Ancestors Farmers July

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Edward Dahlberg

Writing Farming Ancestors Conscience

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man Quotation Ancestors Every Man

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

Carl D. Anderson

Home Heart Place Special Ancestors

Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.

Care Ancestors Years Up Being Hunt

All the scars on my body, all the bumps and bruises, all the muscles - that is a story of everything I have done. And it's not just my story. My ancestors who came before me gave me this vessel to sculpt and mold.

Me Story Body Scars Done Ancestors

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

World Believe Seed Thought Ancestors

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

Wheel Ancestors Something Sure Maybe

Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served several purposes: killing contaminants, softening the flesh, and extracting the rich soluble polysaccharides.

Water Tea Rich Ancestors Mushrooms

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

You Ancestors Greedy Here Been Our

Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.

Herbert A. Simon

Knowledge Best Kind Ancestors Piano

Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.

Eyes Long Moral Ancestors Old Years

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

Randy Wayne White

Life Three Anchor Ancestors Four

To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

Build Understand Ancestors Reconnect

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

People Think Ancestors Forgotten

Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

History Lesson Ancestors Yes Give

Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

People City Hands Ancestors Dirt

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tree Ancestors Top Own His Each

My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.

Robert Whittaker

Strength Father Mother Ancestors

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Money Mistakes Ancestors Fair Pay

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

Freedom People Hands Want Ancestors

Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.

Ancestors Through Mushroom Just Our

Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.

You Done Ancestors Whatever Because

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

Herbert A. Simon

Man Think Earth Ancestors Fix Same

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