I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.
Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.
My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.
Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.
I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets."
The wisdom of our ancestors.
Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.
I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.
I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.
I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me Amy.
If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
Are we being good ancestors?
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.
From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.
That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free.
I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.
My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
