Quotes with ancestor

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• Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

  ― Alan Dundes
  American folklorist
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• Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

  ― Francis Herbert Hedge
  British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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• For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.

  ― Albert Claude
  Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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• The ancestor of every action is thought.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

  ― Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• differentiations
• metamorphosis
• physiological
• particularly
• genealogy
• apparent

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