Famous quotes containing the words ancestral and/or rites:
“The ancestral deed is thought and done,
And in a million Edens fall
A million Adams drowned in darkness,
For small is great and great is small,
And a blind seed all.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)
“According to his virtue let us use him,
With all respect and rites of burial.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)