A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from… — Trevor McDonald Copy Share Image
I've never really understood how people cannot value the future, or think that the world is going down a fast slippery slope… — Gordon Hempton 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
Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call… — Leopold Sedar Senghor 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
I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of… — Plato Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
If you discuss the beliefs of Christianity with the village diviner, the medicine man, he will say the white man must be… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
To be treaty person means coexist in peace and with mutual respect. That's at the core of these treaties. They intended for… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature… — Robert Frenay Copy Share Image
I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds… — Charles Sheldon Copy Share Image
W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors. — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned…That is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes. — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
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