Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. Then steadily and consistently work to provide ordinances in the temple for your own ancestors. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or… — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms… — Empress Dowager Cixi Copy Share Image
Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are… — Marija Gimbutas Copy Share Image
Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water;… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a… — Francis Maitland Balfour Copy Share Image
As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers.… — Aurora Guerrero Copy Share Image
Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict.… — John Hench Copy Share Image
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell Copy Share Image
Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state… — William James Copy Share Image
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