Quotes by Ancestor If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors. Alice Walker ancestor ifs My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us. Alice Walker ancestor skins world I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically. Alice Walker covering ancestor feels We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn. Amilcar Cabral ancestor answers children Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure. Brendan Fraser ancestor not-sure wheels There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. Claude Vorilhon ancestor intolerance mistake Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. David Mitchell ancestor memories The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched. E. O. Wilson ancestor genes world He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. Edmund Burke remembered ancestor treasure The wisdom of our ancestors. Edmund Burke ancestor wisdom If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. Edward Abbey ancestor suffering dream My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited. Eric Cantona ancestor fighter The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty. Erwin Schrodinger ancestor self fifty What we've inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before. And if we fail to preserve it, it will never, ever exist again. So we cannot fail. Donald Trump ancestor failing They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. Francis Bacon ancestor potatoes valuable If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it. Gregory Maguire ancestor monk knows We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. Guy de Maupassant ancestor politics weight Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors. Herbert Agar ancestor snob ifs Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors. Horace Walpole ancestor degenerates posterity Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. Horace ancestor crime battle 1234»