A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

quote by Dean Inge
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

quote by William Ralph Inge
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

quote by Alex Haley
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Bloodline

Yahweh taught Adam and,
It is not the law that causes curses;
But it is the act of breaking the laws!
'Florida Highways',
We are in the bloodline of Yahshua;
But, we need the laws to keep us going.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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My Tasks Are Deeper Than That

It is not from a core,
Heated with an ego...
I wish adored.

My tasks are deeper than that.
My approach to life,
Keeps my ancestors intact.

It is not for adulation,
I crave to taste.
Or applause to acknowledge,
I have talents gifted...
From an unseen higher place.

My tasks are deeper than that.
My approach to life,
Keeps my ancestors intact.

It's a fact I respect my ancestors tracks.
I feel their spirits around and in me.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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He who boasts of his ancestry unduly will bring plenty of trouble upon himself.

Swahili proverbs
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The View From An Attic Window

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Among the high-branching, leafless boughs
Above the roof-peaks of the town,
Snowflakes unnumberably come down.

I watched out of the attic window
The laced sway of family trees,
Intricate genealogies

Whose strict, reserved gentility,
Trembling, impossible to bow,
Received the appalling fall of snow.

All during Sunday afternoon,
Not storming, but befittingly,
Out of a still, grey, devout sky,

The snowflakes fell, until all shapes
Went under, and thickening, drunken lines
Cobwebbed the sleep of solemn pines.

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poem by Howard Nemerov
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I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

quote by Don Marquis
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We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

quote by James Hillman
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

quote by Francis Herbert Hedge
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A Romance

He looks at me with a madman's eyes -
It's your house and porch I know so well.
He gives me a kiss with his crimson lips -
Our ancestors had gone to war in scales of steel.

He brought me a bouquet of crimson carnations -
It's your austere face I know so well.
He asked in return for a single kiss -
Our ancestors had gone to war in scales of steel.

He touched me with his finger bearing a dark ring -
It is your dark ring I know so well.
Together we tumbled down on a Turkish divan -
Our ancestors had gone to war in scales of steel.

He looks at me with a madman's eyes -
Dwindle away, o you stars, and fade, o you moon!
He gives me a kiss with his crimson lips -
Our ancestors had gone to war in scales of steel.

poem by Daniil Ivanovich Kharms
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

quote by Frederick Henry Hedge
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Bits And Pieces

i like to think of life as a prism
the derivation of so many colours
that could only add up into a dream
and that when it ends, each colour
i would like to think each colour takes
their cue and goes back to where they
have come for that meaningful tryst
the man feels a part of himself in each
and everything like stars that play a part
each in a mass piece of space called darkness

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Bigotry

From each person
a thread to a common
ancestor
we have to be careful
we don't become
blinkered
from the reality
of one.

poem by Vince Gullaci
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

quote by Voltaire
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sanasai! The Mother of Distinct Nations with Common Myths

Sanasai!
An anonymous southern land
A faraway south eastern land
A remote south eastern land
In a drifting ocean….

Appearing the sun and moon on a cannibal island
Sanasai!
The mother of distinct nations with common myths in Taljouwan
The same tongue of an unspoken origin
The snakes emerged
Tangling the gloomy sky of hundred folds
Crawling the dark ground of thousand miles
Only pair of brother and sister remained
Potsok and Raya
Embracing and burgeoning the light amid heaven and earth
The penis up-heaved the great loneliness
A stone-like hard glans with red blood vessels
Sucking the water from the hole of vulva
The secretion

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poem by Catherine Yen
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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

quote by Thomas Overbury
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Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

quote by Walter Lippmann
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Silence brings wisdom of the ancestors.

African proverbs
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