Quotes about Ancestors
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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?
— Cicero
Your ancestors are a ladder; upon them climb.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
— Maya Angelou
So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
— Genesis 8:18
the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.
— Genesis 10:14
the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
— Genesis 10:16
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
— Genesis 10:17
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
— Genesis 10:18
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
— Genesis 11:29
Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
— Genesis 15:20
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
— Genesis 15:21