Ancestral Spirits

Famous quotes containing the words ancestral and/or spirits:

“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)

“‘But they are dead; those two are dead!
Their spirits are in heaven!’
‘Twas throwing words away; for still
The little maid would have her will,
And said, ‘Nay, we are seven!’”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)