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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors  (Ancestors Quotes) Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room  (Ancestors Quotes) Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality?  (Ancestors Quotes) It has long seemed to me that it would be more honorable to our ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more  (Ancestors Quotes) We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... Of our barbarous ancestors  (Ancestors Quotes) ... we should be grateful for them because without our family - the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day - life is pretty boring  (Ancestors Quotes) People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants  (Ancestors Quotes) It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors  (Ancestors Quotes) There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his  (Ancestors Quotes) No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors  (Ancestors Quotes) Where is the dust that has not been alive? the spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors; from human mould we reap our daily bread  (Ancestors Quotes) Like lavish ancestors, his earlier years have disinherited his future hours, which starve on orts, and glean their former field  (Ancestors Quotes) The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air  (Ancestors Quotes) Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; for treason is but trusted like the fox, who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, will have a wild trick of his ancestors  (Ancestors Quotes) Treason is but trusted like the fox; who, ne'er so tame, so cherished, and lock'd up, will have a wild trick of his ancestors  (Ancestors Quotes) Mine honor's such a ring; my chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors, which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world In me to lose  (Ancestors Quotes) Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around  (Ancestors Quotes) 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  (Ancestors Quotes) If the young leddy was so careless o' insulting other folks' ancestors, it proves she has nane o' her ain; for them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful no to break the china plates of others  (Ancestors Quotes) We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins  (Ancestors Quotes) Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start  (Ancestors Quotes) Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war  (Ancestors Quotes) Uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up in and convert America into a conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common - not history, heroes, language, culture, faith, or ancestors. Balkanization beckons  (Ancestors Quotes) Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values  (Ancestors Quotes) What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: why is it so dark in here?  (Ancestors Quotes) Remember, sir, my liege, the kings your ancestors, together with the natural bravery of your isle, which stands as Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in with rocks unscalable and roaring waters, with sands that will not bear your enemies' boats but suck them up to th' topmast  (Ancestors Quotes) There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors  (Ancestors Quotes) He that boasts of his ancestors, the founders and raisers of a family, doth confess that he hath less virtue  (Ancestors Quotes) Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings  (Ancestors Quotes) I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line  (Ancestors Quotes)
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