229 Quotes About Ancestors

Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?

To the rain over northern England, the coal under its top soil, and our ancestors who chanted to the winds.

Oftentimes, the most important decisions are the most difficult to make - for, your future, and the future of the generations that come after you, hinges on the outcome of those decisions.

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves...We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love, and die.

An understanding of the cultural history of our homeland together with an intimate familiarity with our community’s customs injects richness into our lives. Awareness of our ancestors’ home life and their true-life encounters with poverty, deprivations, tragedy, and fleeting successes connects us to the phlogistic hiss of the past and awakens us to the possibility of future transformations in how we live.

One who feels responsible for their community, needs no ancestor to define their identity.

You have no identity until you make one with your actions.

I wrap myself in Mother’s cream pashmina and look in the mirror. She stares back. Resemblances run deep in our family. Ancestors lay claim and features are passed on like antiquities, every new life an ode to another.

Every succeeding generation has the opportunity to heal the wounds of the past.