The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground. — Henry S. F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I mean, in the history of poetry there have been a lot poetries where you have to inherit the position of poet… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers. — Nainoa Thompson Copy Share Image
You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is… — Hirohito Copy Share Image
StarClan may go where they please, they have betrayed SkyClan. From this day on, I will have nothing more to do with… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are… — Alain de Botton 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
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers. — Roh Moo-hyun Copy Share Image
It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
