...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
We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far… — Richard Thornton Copy Share Image
When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the… — Philip Carr-Gomm Copy Share Image
Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors… — Anna Thomas Copy Share Image
I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One is fully conscious when he or she is the results of having been informed and instructed by the experience of his… — James Small Copy Share Image
X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows… — Malcolm X 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
Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It all began when... they're funny, those words. Everyone uses them, without thinking what they mean. When does anything begin? With everyone… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville 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
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
There are more temples across the earth than there have ever been. More people in all the world have felt the Spirit… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and… — Euripides Copy Share Image
It is said that our indigenous ancestors, Mayas and Aztecs, made human sacrifices to their gods. It occurs to me to ask:… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
“Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood… — Agnes Meyer Driscoll Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one… — Ashraf Barhom Copy Share Image
I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
I have a musical ancestry as much as I have a family ancestry. Honoring those ancestors gives you access to a greater… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. — Horace Mann 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
“DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
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