It is fashionable in some quarters to say our ancestors were all evil. I reject that notion. I also reject the elitist worldview that these United States are anything but the greatest nation in the history of mankind.

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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

For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

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.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

Our ancestors didn't need any genetic enhancements to be able to sit for twelve hours a day and eat fatty, sugary foods, but we need enhancements that handle that altered environment.

Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.

Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.

My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.

I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 18, 1948, as the elder son of Karl and Frieda Michel. My ancestors lived in that area for generations, mainly as farmers.

Our ancestors didn't need any genetic enhancements to be able to sit for twelve hours a day and eat fatty, sugary foods, but we need enhancements that handle that altered environment.

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.