229 Quotes About Ancestors
- Author Edmund Burke
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People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
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- Author Francisco X. Alarcón
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I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.
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- Author Liam Callanan
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We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
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- Author Tomi Adeyemi
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You carry all of us in your heart. We shall live in every breath you take. Every incantation you speak.
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- Author Laura Cumming
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The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations.
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- Author Mike Skinner
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For billions of years since the outset of timeEvery single one of your ancestors has survivedEvery single person on your mum and dad's sideSuccessfully looked after and passed on to you life.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.
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- Author Lynda Nguyen
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Courage and strength moves like the steadfast waves of the ocean. Ebbs and flows, highs and lows, loud and soft, firm and vulnerable, passing encouragement from one generation to the next.
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- Author Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You are the strongest male I have ever known, Dancer. No one is more worthy of your noble lineage. You honor your family and your ancestors. And you are a treasure for Andaria. I know the first Dancer of the Warring Blood Clan of Hauk smiles whenever he looks down and sees the strength and beauty of his namesake.
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