#ancestor

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#backward #confined #forward #generally #innovation

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#ancestors #around #arrogant #classes #dead

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#binary #black #creates #enormous #example

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.' ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beyond #books #eat #elephant #especially

I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want. ↗

— Angie Harmon

#ancestors #because #believe #came #confused

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#balance #established #fragile #human #humans

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#ancestors #call #glorious #history #mistakes

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers. ↗

— Roh Moo-hyun

#forefathers #future #future generations #generations #just

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#ancestors #bliss #conjugal #depend #due

Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards. ↗

— Robert Shea

#ancestors #another #being #care #eaten