Quotes & Sayings About Ancestor Worship

Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors. - Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works — Daniel C. Dennett

Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me. A carnival of old camp-scenes danced before my mind's eye, expiring like shooting-stars in the night - merry songs which came to an end among other mountains and the dying sound of strings and flutes. And I was surprised that I had not had enough of these things and that I was not tired of the light of camp-fires. — Sven Hedin

People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. — Maxine Hong Kingston

Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship. — E.L. Doctorow

Before you, Joss, I'd sooner die than accept a ride from a chauffeur. — Suzanne Stroh

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. — Alan Dundes

I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory. — F. Sionil Jose

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 they're dead. — David Henry Hwang

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. — John Berger

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children. — Rebecca Miller

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. — Douglas Alexander

Conscience is strong in women. Children are very violently taught that they owe all to their parents, and the parents are not slow in foreclosing the mortgage. But the home is not a debtor's prison - to girls any more than to boys. This enormous claim of parents calls for extermination. Do they in truth do all for their children; do their children owe all to them? Is nothing furnished in the way of safety, sanitation, education, by that larger home, the state? What could these parents do, alone, in never so pleasant a home, without the allied forces of society to maintain that home in peace and prosperity. These lingering vestiges of a patriarchal cult must be left behind. Ancestor-worship has had victims enough. Girls are human creatures as well as boys, and both have duties, imperative duties, quite outside the home. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

You have to treat your employees like your customers. When you treat them right they will treat your outside customers right. — Herb Kelleher

I just like to inhabit a character really deeply. — Curtis Sittenfeld

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 Hassan

Something else is bothering you. Tell me what it is and I'll fix it." "You can't." "Try me. — Lisa Kleypas

In many parts of the world, ghosts are not considered to be a creation of local folklore, but a fact of life. In China the dead are understood to co-exist with the living, a belief which gave rise to the practice of ancestor worship, while in South America the deceased are honoured with annual festivals known as the Day of the Dead which suggests that the material world and the spirit world might not be as distinct as we might like to believe. In the Eastern and Asiatic religions it is believed that death is not the end, but simply a transition from one state of being to another. The Hindu Upanishads, for example, liken each human soul to a lump of salt taken from the ocean which must ultimately return to the source. — Paul Roland

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. — Sidney Altman

Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness. — Sivananda

a Philosopher could not grasp the modern idea of progress ... until he was willing to abandon ancestor worship, until he analyzed away his inferiority complex toward the past, and realized that his own generation was superior to any yet known — Carl Becker

If you ask the question "What can I do for you?", you will always have work, you will always have friends, and your life will always have meaning. — Dick Foth

We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start. — Matthew D. Miller

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 Morton

The brain is machine which collects data, use it to collect data. Then use that data for a purpose! — Deyth Banger

Greatest felicity of any human or animals is to feed own belly — Kunal Jajal