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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors  (Ancestor Quotes) Every action has an ancestor of a thought  (Ancestor Quotes) Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor  (Ancestor Quotes) The ancestor of every action is a thought  (Ancestor Quotes) The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought  (Ancestor Quotes) Genealogy, n. An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own  (Ancestor Quotes) Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor.  (Ancestor Quotes) We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor  (Ancestor Quotes) We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start  (Ancestor Quotes) A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower  (Ancestor Quotes) If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it’s an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn’t real, if it’s just an allegory, it’s just a story, then what’s the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?  (Ancestor Quotes) We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one God.  (Ancestor Quotes) Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we’re talking about.  (Ancestor Quotes) Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they’re dead.  (Ancestor Quotes) And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it’s true. It’s kind of unbelievable.  (Ancestor Quotes) Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.  (Ancestor Quotes) I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.  (Ancestor Quotes) Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.  (Ancestor Quotes) I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I’d never have gone to otherwise.  (Ancestor Quotes) The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.  (Ancestor Quotes) If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you’re related to them. It doesn’t mean that you’re going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.  (Ancestor Quotes) Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past  (Ancestor Quotes) Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past  (Ancestor Quotes) When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants  (Ancestor Quotes) A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric  (Ancestor Quotes) We don’t know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don’t understand our name at all, we don’t know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration  (Ancestor Quotes) When we look at things as simple as food, it’s not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor  (Ancestor Quotes) We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor  (Ancestor Quotes) Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead  (Ancestor Quotes) The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind  (Ancestor Quotes)
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