Ancestral

Famous quotes containing the word ancestral:

    “Children, behold the Chimpanzee:
    He sits on the ancestral tree
    From which we sprang in ages gone.”
    —Oliver Herford (1863–1935)

    “The ancestral deed is thought and done,
    And in a million Edens fall
    A million Adams drowned in darkness,
    For small is great and great is small,
    And a blind seed all.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “Odour of blood on the ancestral stair!
    And we that have shed none must gather there
    And clamour in drunken frenzy for the moon.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)