77 Quotations with Ancestor.
- 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- 2. Plutarch: It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our anc ...
- 3. Author Unknown: Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell ...
- 4. Aldous Huxley: To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it ha ...
- 5. Haida Indian saying: We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contempo ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particula ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust -- to which, doubtless, will be add ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim b ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among per ...
- 14. Cyril Connolly: What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
- 15. John Ciardi: Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
- 16. Laurence J. Peter: Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ances ...
- 17. Douglas Adams: Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
- 18. Walter Lippmann: Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of wha ...
- 19. W. Somerset Maugham: I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast ...
- 20. Voltaire: Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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