“All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.” MindPastRecordsBuddhismAncestorOur PastDnaYour PastPast Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!” TodayPastWinningAliveMy FriendsDiedChampionAncestorInfancyLive For Today Author:Daniel Levitin
“The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.” IfsHomePastPayObjectsStonesHatredFortuneDearMiserableComplimentAncestorGood FortuneWhat You LovePeninsulasCompliments You Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
“the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.” MeanPastCultureVoiceListeningIndianGloriousAncestor Author:Allen Sapp
“Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.” WorldPastCultureTreeBirthEternityTraditionalLinksAncestorChildbirthExtendingPast PresentPast Present And FutureIntersectionsTree Of Life Author:Sheila Kitzinger
“In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.” PeopleWayFeelsDoePastCultureAnimalWestHistorianAncestorPast LifeBiographers Author:Miriam Makeba