...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors. — William Kean Seymour Copy Share Image
I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and… — Joshua Copy Share Image
Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression… — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
This is a beautiful and hopeful time to be alive. We are at a turning point, and your contribution to the world… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
