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If someone asked me to share a quote about life, love, happiness or friendship at the top of my head I could easily name a few. Ask me to tell you a quote about ancestry, then you’re on your own (unless Mufasa’s line to Simba in the Lion King about the stars counts?). Well that’s until now that is. We’ve discovered some of the most inspiring and beautiful ancestry quotes out there.
Ancestors are the people from whom we descend. Though usually meaning more distant relatives, ancestors also do include grandparents. With grandparents day right around the corner we wanted to share an array of inspiring, thought provoking and heart warming ancestry quotes.
1. “Love is the greatest gift one generation can leave another” – Richard Garnett
2. ‘’I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line’’ ― Ziggy Marley
3. “It was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so they know that I too, have been bruised...by beauty.” ― Sanober Khan
4. “Roots are, I’m learning, as important as wings.” —Michele Huey
5. “You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.” ― Toba Beta
6. “The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children” ― Philip Carr-Gomm
7. “I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.” ― Francisco X. Alarcón
8. “We’re all immortal, as long as our stories are told.” ― Elizabeth Hunter
9. “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” —Michael Crichton
10. “To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without roots.” —Chinese proverb
11. “Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.” —Linda Hogan
12. “When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves.” —Russell M. Nelson
13. “We all carry inside us, people who came before us.” —Liam Callanan
14. “We don’t own our family history. We simply preserve it for the next generation.” —Rosemary Alva
15. “The more you know of your history the more liberated you are.” —Maya Angelou.