Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Our system has adopted universal suffrage, which points toward open and easy access to the ballot, but our heritage in political exclusivity… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage…w e… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
I love finding ways to bridge the gap between my heritage and my new farming community. An ingredient such as za'atar might… — Molly Yeh Copy Share Image
Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage,… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
I want people to leave the theater with a greater understanding of the rich cultural heritage of Pakistan. "Song of Lahore" moves… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are… — Frederick Osborn Copy Share Image
“Surely our people do not understand even yet the rich heritage that is theirs. There can be nothing in the world more… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that -- in which there's a… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental… — Carolyn Merchant Copy Share Image
Oceans are a family heritage, because of my great-great-grandfather, but also my father, who spearheaded different initiatives to better protect the Mediterranean.… — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
Tourism is the sum total of the travel experience. It is not just what happens at the destination. It involves everything that… — Ed McMahon Copy Share Image
I was a big fan of the more Mexican-based wrestlers when I started watching WCW, and I saw guys like Silver King,… — Aleister Black Copy Share Image
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and immediacy of the… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race -… — Peter Schwartz Copy Share Image
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
“He knew all the stories. His grandfather had given them to him when he sat between the old man’s knees as a… — Stant Litore Copy Share Image
We are thankful for these and all the good things of life. We recognize that they are a part of our common… — J. S. Woodsworth Copy Share Image
I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
