Ancestors Quotes
Lines honoring the people who came before us.
Several quotes here trace gratitude toward earlier generations and the traditions they passed down, a natural companion to our family quotes collection.
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived mainly in East Africa, and you had the Neanderthal in Europe, Homo Erectus in part of Asia, and...
Africa Quotes
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.
Family Quotes
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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.
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
Father Quotes
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.
Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served several purposes: killing contaminants, softening the flesh, and extracting the rich soluble polysaccharides.
Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.
Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.
Only Quotes
We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.
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Explore more on lineage with our father quotes, or read about humanity's earliest roots in our Africa quotes.
