Quotes tagged ‘Ancestors’

“I believe religions are derivative of truth leading to the same notion. They’re guides all our ancestors had for countless generations and the reason has been subtracted from our lives, which has left us with this void that we’ve filled with materialism.”

— David LaChapelle, theguardian.com

“[after Maximus sees the dead body of Marcus Aurelius] Commodus: Your Emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. Take my hand, I only offer it once. Quintus: Maximus, please be careful, that was not prudent. Maximus: Prudent! The Emperor has been slain.”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Maximus Decimus Meridius, imdb.com

“Ancestors, I ask you for your guidance. Blessed mother, come to me with the gods’ desire for my future. Blessed father, watch over my wife and son with a ready sword. Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again. Ancestors, I honor you and will try to live with the dignity that you have taugh…”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Maximus Decimus Meridius, imdb.com

“Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.”

— Alexander Pope, books.google.com

“I've always believed that objects can connect us to our ancestors.”

— Matthew Maala, Tyron Carter, Amaya Jiwe, Maisie Richardson Sellers, imdb.com

“T'Challa: We can still heal you... Erik Killmonger: Why, so you can lock me up? Nah. Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, 'cause they knew death was better than bondage.”

— Joe Robert Cole, Ryan Coogler, T'Challa / Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, imdb.com

“A mechanism inside of you.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero, loebclassics.com

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero, loebclassics.com

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero, loebclassics.com

“Congratulations. You're alive. There's an unbroken thread that stretches across more than three billion years that connects us to the first life that ever touched this world. Think of how tough, resourceful and lucky all of our countless ancestors must have been to survive long enough to pass on the…”

— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“For thousands of generations we watched the stars as if our lives depended on it, because they did….[O]ur ancestors noticed that the motions of the stars across the nights of the year foretold changes on Earth that threatened or enhanced our chances for survival.”

— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“Lemurs are close to the ancestral stock from which all primates arose, and I am happy to think that one of my own ancestors, 50 million years ago, was a little tree-dwelling creature not so dissimilar to the lemurs of today. I love their leaping vitality, their inquisitive nature.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“I got fired from PC World today. A guy came in the store and asked me what was the best thing for finding your ancestors. ‘Probably a shovel’ was not the right answer.”

— raydeep, reddit.com

“Everything I know about my family’s history, I know in fragments. We are the keepers of secrets. We are secrets ourselves. We try to protect each other from the geography of so much sorrow. I don’t know that we succeed.”

— Roxane Gay, amazon.com