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«Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one»
Author: Howard Kenneth Nixon | Keywords: ancestors
«Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.»
«Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.»
«At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.»
«Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.»
«Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Mankind | Keywords: ancestors, king, kings, slave, slaves, springs
«Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.»
«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»
«Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal»
«Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.»

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