Quotes about ancestor
ancestors appreciate fought realize sacrifices
I realize many of my ancestors fought so I could have the opportunities I have today, and I appreciate them for the sacrifices they made for us.
ancestors descendant enslaved looked people saw slaves
I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves. Ta-Nehisi Coates
ancestors billion everybody grew horrible knew return strangers village
Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people. David Brin
ancestors family history trace
I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people. Kim Edwards
ancestors culture holding test
This is too important to fail, because it is holding a nation's--holding a people's--culture in my hands, ... My litmus test will be, Would my ancestors be happy?
ancestors baked born bread crossed george time troops washington
My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave. Paul Robeson
ancestors common dirty evolved future word
It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future. Louise Leakey
ancestors arms came died effort freedoms growing life men protect willing women
With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.
ancestors ancestry born ghosts
Worshippers of the demigods go to the demigods, the worshippers of the ancestors go to the ancestors, and the worshippers of the ghosts go to the ghosts, but My devotees come to Me (and are not born again).
ancestors maybe people saying
As he was doing it, he was saying maybe these are some of my ancestors and my people here. It really was something for him.
ancestors educated feeling sinking smart smarter younger
Our ancestors were very smart people. I have a sinking feeling they were much more educated than we, and that they got smarter much younger than we. Nick Clooney
ancestors gathered
Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi. John Burnside
ancestors country later people seeds sow taught treat
Our ancestors taught them how to sow maize, later how to sow the seeds of this country. And now they treat us like this . . . treat us like criminals. Our people just come here to work.
ancestors food learned sharing social
It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals. Ruth Reichl
ancestors came either including native respect somewhere
All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants. Jan C. Ting
ancestors children genius great heredity man people seem select
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small. Robert Green Ingersoll
ancestors attempts behavior brutality erase identify recognize sadistic treated
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land. Alice Walker
ancestor i-realized
[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection. Sam Heughan
ancestor
Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me. Tad Williams
ancestors history include indian largest leaders refused sign stick treaty united war
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. Joy Harjo
ancestors ancestry meet
My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat. Will Rogers
ancestors ancestry met
My ancestors didn't come over in the Mayflower -- they met the boat.
ancestors came food van
My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food. Richard Flanagan
ancestors names virtues
From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
ancestors black creates enormous logic negative people positive problems society trapped white
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. Henry Louis Gates
ancestors fun great
Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors Tom Snyder
ancestors concerned identities losing north politics separate
My generation, our generation, isn't so much concerned with where you're from. We don't have as much of a connection, a feel for the politics of our ancestors ... we are losing the idea of separate identities between the North and South.
ancestors strong
I think my ancestors had to be enormously strong emotionally and very courageous. Jim Murphy
ancestors ask citizenship identity land people
Our people ask for nothing more than the recognition of citizenship, nothing more than the right to live on the land where their ancestors were born. Nothing more than their identity cards.
ancestors anyone black civil dug expert facto fought graduated loaded men pageant performed raised survived taught trucks war
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. Greg Iles
ancestors climbed food free good grail holy since
Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees. Tristram Stuart
ancestors ancestry came lucky realize sacrifices
We're lucky our ancestors came here. It makes you realize the sacrifices they experienced.