“ We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children. ”
- David Bower- Copy
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“ A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. ”
- Dick Cavett- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors. ”
- Zhu Rongji- Copy
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“ I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. ”
- Greg Norman- Copy
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“ Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
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“ It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
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“ We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ In Boston they ask, "How much does he know?" In New York, "How much is he worth?" In Philadelphia, "Who were his parents?". ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 524
“ There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. ”
- Elayne Boosler- Copy
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“ Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. ”
- Van Wyck Brooks- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ We have tradition that so we believe, because both we from our predecessors, and they from theirs, have so received. ”
- Richard Hooker- Copy
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“ The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it. ”
- Tad Williams- Copy
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“ We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow,And for our children we reserve tomorrow. ”
- John Donne- Copy
- 2.6K
“ If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. ”
- Bette Davis- Copy
- 599
“ Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't. ”
- L. L. Hendren- Copy
- 2.1K
“ There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents. ”
- Leon R. Yankwich- Copy
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