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My ancestors offer me bliss, love, and light. I gratefully receive that which is for my highest good and release the rest back into the pure, white light.Amy Leigh Mercree
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Ancestors from all times have shared their essence with you. Accept the light and let go of the rest.Amy Leigh Mercree
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I keep the light and love from my ancestors and let go of the rest.Amy Leigh Mercree
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We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing.Amy Leigh Mercree
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Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.Amit Kalantri
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In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.Amit Kalantri
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You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.Amit Kalantri
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In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.Amit Kalantri
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Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.Raquel Cepeda
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When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.Raquel Cepeda
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Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been 'sold' to me as an essentially secular and democratic one. The idea was a haven for the persecuted and the survivors, a democracy in a region where the idea was poorly understood, and a place where–as Philip Roth had put it in a one-handed novel that I read when I was about nineteen–even the traffic cops and soldiers were Jews. This, like the other emphases of that novel, I could grasp. Indeed, my first visit was sponsored by a group in London called the Friends of Israel. They offered to pay my expenses, that is, if on my return I would come and speak to one of their mee .Christopher Hitchens
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It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.Matshona Dhliwayo
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There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I don’t much respect (Mosaic Law, the Nuremberg Laws, and the Israeli Law of Return) I do qualify as a member of the tribe, and any denial of that in my family has ceased with me. But I would not remove myself to Israel if it meant the continuing expropriation of another people, and if anti- Jewish fascism comes again to the Christian world–or more probably comes at us via the Muslim world– I already consider it an obligation to resist it wherever I live. I would detest myself if I fled from it in any direction. Leo Strauss was right. The Jews will not be 'saved' or 'redeemed.' (Cheer up: neither will anyone else.) They/we will always be in exile whether they are in the greater Jerusalem area or not, and this in some ways is as it should be. They are, or we are, as a friend of Victor Klemperer's once put it to him in a very dark time, condemned and privileged to be 'a seismic people.' A critical register of the general health of civilization is the status of 'the Jewish question.' No insurance policy has ever been devised that can or will cover this risk.Christopher Hitchens
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A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical records, but in the same manner that the soul of a child, from which we sprang from, traces a direct connection to the matured soul of the adult.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Our children are an integral component of our stories as we are of theirs and, therefore, each child acts as the knighted messengers to carry their forebears’ stories into the future. To deprive our children of the narrative cells regarding the formation of the ozone layer that rims the atmosphere of our ancestors’ saga and parental determination of selfhood is to deny them of the sacred right to claim the sanctity of their heritage. Accordingly, all wrinkled brow natives are chargeable with the sacrosanct obligation of telling their kith and kin the memorable story of the scenic days they spent as children of nature splashing about in their naked innocence in the brook of infinite time and space. We must scrupulous document our family’s history as well as scrawl out our personal story. .Kilroy J. Oldster
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Your ancestors are rooting for you.Eleanor Brownn
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Discrimination is the most polite word for abuse aka denying equal opportunity by anyone in power based on age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.Ramesh Lohia
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The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains his crime. He reinforces the racist presumption. It is only when that presumption is questioned that a fine analysis of ancestry is invoked. Frederick Douglass was an ordinary nigger while working the fields. But as a famed abolitionist, it was often said that his genius must derive from his white half.TaNehisi Coates
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Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind.Kilroy J. Oldster
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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.Tahir Shah
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He who has daughters is always a shepherd.Old Saying
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.Brendan Behan
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I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.Abraham Lincoln
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I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.Charles Darwin
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Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.Leon R. Yankwich
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All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy
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The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.Randall Jarrell
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As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.Josh Billings
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I am he As you are me And we are all together.John Lennon
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Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.Joe Cook
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.Jane Austen
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When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.R. D. Laing
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The family is the American fascism.Paul Goodman
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The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children.Edward
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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter De Vries
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.Freya Stark
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No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.Margaret Mead
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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.Victor Hugo
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.Theodore Hesburgh
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Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.Ashley Montagu