The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?' — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors. — Mau Piailug Copy Share Image
I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable. — Gladys Mitchell Copy Share Image
That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy,… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“ancestor. In fact, this clock tells us that all seven billion people alive today can trace their maternal lineage to one woman… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly 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
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
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
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 is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature… — Robert Frenay Copy Share Image
The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you discuss the beliefs of Christianity with the village diviner, the medicine man, he will say the white man must be… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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