Top Ancestors Quotes
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
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
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Carl D. Anderson
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
Robert T. Bakker
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
Daniel J. Boorstin 
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
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The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
Wilbur Wright
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Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.
Max Delbruck
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
Malcolm Boyd
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
Elayne Boosler
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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.
Robert Shea
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Popular Ancestors Authors
Ralph Waldo Emerson VoltaireGilbert K. ChestertonRobert Louis StevensonEdmund BurkeHelen KellerThomas SowellRobert Anton WilsonDon MarquisEdgar Watson Howe Plutarch SallustThomas B. MacaulayBrendan FraserJames Hillman
Joe BacaJohn HenchJoan D. VingeDaniel J. BoorstinCharles Dudley WarnerEdsger DijkstraFrank HerbertRobert SheaPaul TsongasRichard DawkinsPaul RobesonPete du PontRichard LeakeyJohn CiardiPete Seeger
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