#ancestors

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#fighters #i #inherited #something #were

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

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

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#am #ancestors #came #convinced #i

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ↗

— Don Marquis

#blood #boast #descendants #family #finish

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. ↗

— Don Marquis

#fair #leave #mistakes #money #only

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure. ↗

— George H. Mead

#before #blocked #cautious #delicacy #entrance

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#before #begins #born #hereditary #history

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