This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country… — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor,… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin… — Sam Francis Copy Share Image
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy,… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“ancestor. In fact, this clock tells us that all seven billion people alive today can trace their maternal lineage to one woman… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those… — Alfred Lord Tennyson 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
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty…And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to,… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
