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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
Anita Desai
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Carl D. Anderson
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
Robert T. Bakker
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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
Anita Desai 
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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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
65% of people like this quote
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Carl D. Anderson
62% of people like this quote
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis Stevenson
60% of people like this quote
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
Robert T. Bakker
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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Frank Herbert
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We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.
Mikhail Saakashvili
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I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
Pete du Pont
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I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
John Shelby Spong
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