Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression… — Xunzi Copy Share Image
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams. — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
You know, my name … comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov.… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the largest voluntary… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The forces of genetic mixing are so powerful that everyone in the world has Jewish ancestors, though the amount of DNA from… — Steve Olson Copy Share Image
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen.… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum… — Sallust Copy Share Image
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant… — Kenny Ausubel Copy Share Image
If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates… — Ziya Tong Copy Share Image
Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Our ancestors had displayed great strengths in space science. What people like Aryabhata had said centuries ago are being recognised by science… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
![“Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.” quote by Xunzi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4bc/xunzi-35969_ancestor_sacrifice-is-a-state-of-mind-in-which-ou_1451067.jpg)
![“You know, my name … comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov. And I believe Hashem [Orthodox for God] actually gave me that name. One of my roles, very important in the United States senate, is to be a shomer -- to be a or the shomer…” quote by Charles Schumer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b22/charles-schumer-10224_ancestor_you-know-my-name-comes-from-the-word-sho_1985707.jpg)
![“The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.]” quote by Sallust](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/093/sallust-4191_ancestor_the-glory-of-ancestors-sheds-a-light-aro_2771739.jpg)
