Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.
Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters. . . Throw away your ancestors!. . . Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath. . . Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose!
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse.
Healthy areas that are richest in information are those areas in the wild where we can get all the information that's available to us within our human hearing range. The most valuable information throughout human evolution has been faint sounds. We tend to think in our modern world that if it's loud, if it grabs our attention, it's important. We get a lot of that in advertising. But in nature, it's the faintest sound that's important; it has determined, in the past of our ancestors, perhaps, if they will live or die. Faint sounds are the earliest clues of newly arriving information.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.
I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud that I am a countryman of yours, you the descendants of the sages, you the descendants of the most glorious Rishis the world ever saw. Therefore have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.
So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.
My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to survive - as opposed to domesticated animals that we depend on. Would it radically change things if we had more rhinos in our midst? I kind of suspect it would.
