Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?

I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend’s...

Here it is necessary briefly to consider the question of the cult of ancestors before venturing farther. The spirits of the departed are believed to be possessed of supernatural powers which they did not enjoy...

I am the now of the then. My body is the embodiment of all my ancestors who came before me. They live on in me.

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.

You and I probably wouldn’t be here if our ancestors hadn’t been greedy savages.

Frankly, our ancestors don’t seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn’t care about what would happen to the...

No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and – as a special class within the whole – mental events, to which it belongs as a reacting member and which it...

We’re all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.