My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained… — Jack London Copy Share Image
In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like… — Clifford D. Simak 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
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred… — Ishmael Reed 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
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their… — Nainoa Thompson Copy Share Image
For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ...… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Long ago, when faeries and men still wandered the earth as brothers, the MacLeod chief fell in love with a beautiful faery… — Signe Pike Copy Share Image
“After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States entered into World War II to protect our way of life and to… — Kara Martinelli Copy Share Image
Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble… — Ben Jonson 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
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse,… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by… — Hallie Flanagan Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their… — Horace Copy Share Image
I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values,… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
...the original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“We are free falling backward through time, reincarnating ourselves from our past, reflecting the chaotic energy of the present.” — Lorin Morgan-Richards Copy Share Image
“My family tree has many branches, both living and dead... but all equally important. I cherish the memories that make its roots… — Lynda I Fisher Copy Share Image
“My ancestors offer me bliss, love, and light. I gratefully receive that which is for my highest good and release the rest… — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story -… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
“So a dog's value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines -… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself… — Plato Copy Share Image
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
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