Happy Black History Month! Thank my ancestors for providing a firm foundation for me and my people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted. — Raymond Charles Barker Copy Share Image
“We should have known much more than our ancestors. But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I hope that we will honor our ancestors and our future generations. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
The wealth of our country was based on free labour, and that free labour was African labour - our ancestors. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
“He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
“All of our ancestors give us the precious gift of life. Do we use it wisely? Do we use it well? Do… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“Listen, my child, to the voices of your ancestors. Take pride in our accomplishments; find your strength in our suffering. For WE… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“We carry our ancestors in our names and sometimes we carry our ancestors through the sliding doors of emergency rooms and either… — Marie-Helene Bertino Copy Share Image
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“We investigate, we prepare, we execute. We find them, we take them down, and then we piss on their ancestors’ graves.” — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“Our stories make us who we are. And each story has its own purpose and its own reward. Each story rings true… — Laurence Overmire 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
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Each of us is the product of history. Our lives today are evidence that our ancestors survived unbelievable odds stretching back to… — Laura Wheldon Copy Share Image
When Haaland speaks, she does so with the humility of a true public servant. But there is something more. She's an Indigenous… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors have much to answer for. Why? What did they do? …Long ago, they used machines and drugs to keep the… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one’s own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Mei reached into her pocket and took out another steamed egg cake, this one topped with a dark red date. "How about… — Elizabeth Lim Copy Share Image
“On problems finding female ancestors,of any background, remember "I cannot put gas in my car without a note from my husband. The… — Christina Kassabian Schaefer Copy Share Image
“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Mountains have long been a geography for pilgrimage, place where people have been humbled and strengthened, they are symbols of the sacred… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hundreds of things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Turn that worthless lawn into a beautiful garden of food whose seeds are stories sown, whose foods are living origins. Grow a… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
