#ancestors

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#ancestry #build #building-blocks #globe-trotting #inspiration

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us. ↗

— Liam Callanan

#death #ghosts #liam-callanan #the-cloud-atlas #death

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

— Tad Williams

#funny #funny

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#ancestors #back #children #continuum #fundamental

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. ↗

— Voltaire

#need #well #will #you

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#barbarous #call #comprehend #does #each

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air. ↗

— Wilbur Wright

#ancestors #birds #desire #down #fly

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors. ↗

— Cole Younger

#being #born #county #fighters #i

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

— Edmund Burke

#backward #forward #look #never #people

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

— Edward Dahlberg

#conscience #farming #our #scruple #writing