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