Picture Quotes We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start. —Matthew D. MillerWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson —David AllenWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as we see her is only the latest manifestation of other Londons, and to lover her is to plunge into ancestor-worship. —Henry Vollam MortonWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. —Douglas AlexanderWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. —Maxine Hong KingstonWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead. —David Henry HwangWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship. —Ihab HassanWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. —Alan DundesWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this