Quotes About Ancestors And Wisdom

#1. like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom.

David George Haskell

#2. Love brightens the beauty of the heart.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves.

Derek Hough

#4. I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Lizz Winstead

#5. We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.

Terence McKenna

#6. Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.

Amit Kalantri

#7. We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to an animal, you are training yourself to be cruel to people, too (and vice versa).

Jonathan Balcombe

#8. Me and Ashley feel like we're totally different.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#9. What you think is advanced would embarrass any of the masters of the old. Their capabilities rastly surpassed ours. We are a thousand years behind what they achieved.

Lauren Kate

#10. Do not be too sure, young fellows,
That you are better than your ancestors.

William Kean Seymour

#11. The wisdom of our ancestors.

Edmund Burke

#12. Warriors do not speak of such feelings. I love you too, son, but I won't be telling you so.

Julie Garwood

#13. That wisdom is not unique to our people, but I think it has special meaning to those of us born out of mass rape, whose ancestors were carried off and divided up into policies and stocks.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#14. Telling what must not be told is one of the writer's primary tasks. It is also a difficult and dangerous one.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#15. In this shifting landscape, we may tend to forget "what the old folks say." Most of us probably now realize that our ancestors did indeed have it right! Their common-sense ways allowed them to get through the worst of conditions throughout history and still we thrive from their bold undertakings.

Deborah L. Parker

#16. And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty ... And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.

Aime Cesaire

#17. A woman armed with ancestral wisdom is a powerful force. You'll find her powers come from within, she is in tune with her spirit, and the magic of the universe. She trusts, values and follows her intuition.

Lori Bregman

#18. The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

Tad Williams

#19. Killing was as easy as dying, so the Aiel said; any fool could do either.

Robert Jordan

#20. We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Maya Angelou

#21. The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. [T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Charles Dickens

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

Frank Herbert

#24. Are we being good ancestors?

Jonas Salk

#25. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#26. A bit of mist and light suffice for life to overpower nothingness. A bit of hope and time suffice for you to cross the mountain trails of myth; you were spared the fate of your ancestors. So borrow the wisdom of the anemones and say: Nothingness does not concern me, even if death besieges me.

Mahmoud Darwish