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This collection holds 297 ancestors quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Ralph Nader, Carol Kane and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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We must strive to become good ancestors.

All of our ancestors came from somewhere.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

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

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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

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

My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.

I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.

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

I've been really inspired by my roots - my ancestors and Irish history.

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

If you remember your ancestors, they can cross over and be with you again.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo.

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

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

I think my ancestors had to be enormously strong emotionally and very courageous.

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

In a sense, all Americans are battle-born. Our ancestors came here for something better.

My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

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

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

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

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.

Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that.

Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

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

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