#ancestors

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

#heart #home #i #place #reserved

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#example #examples #including #inner #jesus

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#ancestors #broad #cities #civilization #efforts

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

— Edmund Burke

#backward #forward #look #never #people

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#fighters #i #inherited #something #were

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#conscience #farming #our #scruple #writing

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#i #invented #maybe #something #sure

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american revolution #ancestors #army #continental #fought

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#even #gentlemen #ladies #majority #mammals

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#ancestors #children #future #land #look