Ancestors Quotes

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as gua...

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perish...

More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the e...

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting t...

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a...

We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have b...

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, wit...

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

I am an offspring of the dead. I am descended from the deceased. I am the progeny of phantoms. My an...

We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters with...

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understa...

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to anc...

No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and - as a special class with...

The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors th...

Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sash...

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from...