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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

~Carlene Carter

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All of our ancestors came from somewhere.

~Carol Kane

Topics: Ancestors Came Our Somewhere

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My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We had ancestors who came over at the turn of the century. One worked in a laundry, as is typical of Chinese-American immigrants.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: America Ancestors Because Came Century Father Had Him Immigrants Indiana Joined Late Later Laundry Mother Over Parents Studied Turn Typical Who Worked 1960S

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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

~Charles Dudley Warner

Topics: Ancestors Call Comprehend Does Each Each Generation Fortunate Generation Ignorance Our Own Thus

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Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

~Chief Seattle

Topics: Ancestors Dreams Given Great Great Spirit Hearts Hours Men Night Old Old Men Our Our People People Religion Solemn Spirit Them Traditions Visions Written

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To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

~Chief Seattle

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Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Among Ancestors Became Born Child Chilling Dad Diary Doing Earlier Enough Exactly Found How London Pretending Quite Strangely Things Ventriloquist Voices Who Years

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For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

~Christopher Mcdougall

Topics: Across Ancestors Because Could Exhaustion Heat Mammals Million Million Years Nearly Other Our Planet Run Spread Survived Thrive Years

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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

~Claude Vorilhon

Topics: About Ancestors Call Glorious History Mistakes Nothing Our Simply Succession Violations

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This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

~Cory Booker

Topics: American Ancestors Bridges Building Dam Growth Historic History Hoover Infrastructure Investment Most Nation Our Ports Railroad

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