The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
What we've inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before. And if we fail to preserve it, it will… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of… — Ernst Moritz Arndt Copy Share Image
The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape, In forms imaginary, th' unguided days And rotten times that you shall… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
One of the best things about Heaven is that we will be able to reunite with loved ones who have already passed… — David Berg Copy Share Image
A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
StarClan may go where they please, they have betrayed SkyClan. From this day on, I will have nothing more to do with… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach -… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Nature and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud warnings. Today you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms,… — Thomas Banyacya Copy Share Image
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now consciousness, what is consciousness? Consciousness is being aware of one's surroundings, recognizing the existence, truth or fact of something; being aware… — James Small Copy Share Image
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from… — Plato Copy Share Image
With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty... — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the… — William James Copy Share Image
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury;… — Arrian Copy Share Image