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)

“I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“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)