#ancestor

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#baked #born #bread #crossed #delaware

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. ↗

— John Ciardi

#ancestors #gone #left #money #over

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. ↗

— Max Delbruck

#any #billion #carries #cell #experience

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#arm #bone #brought #find #get

That sure as fuck ain't no cow ↗

— Scott Sigler

#cow #horror #scott-sigler #thriller #thriller

All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess) ↗

— Blanche Bachelar

#generation #love #paris #psychology #romance

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243) ↗

— Norman Doidge

#death #ghosts #grief #healing-the-past #loss

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#ancestry #illumination #inspirational #journey #journey-in-life

Just because I don't believe in YOUR God doesn't mean I don't believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#god #imagination #limits #religion #experience

To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#ancestors #assimilation #family #family-line #heritage