People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts — like a Chinese nest of boxes — oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front — in our ancestors, back and back until...
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Anonymous
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
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Shirley Abbott
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.
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Laurence Overmire
Our names were made for us in another century.
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Richard Brautigan
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port
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Anatole Broyard
More Quotes By Macaulay
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
The art of making much show with little substance.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
