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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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
John Ciardi 
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Don Marquis
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
Claude Vorilhon
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OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
James Nasmyth
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We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
Paul Tsongas
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I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Don Marquis
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Ralph Waldo Emerson VoltaireGilbert K. ChestertonRobert Louis StevensonEdmund BurkeHelen KellerThomas SowellRobert Anton WilsonDon MarquisEdgar Watson Howe Plutarch SallustThomas B. MacaulayBrendan FraserJames Hillman
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