Ancestral Habits Quotes

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

Family habits die hard.

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.

Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.