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
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
There are things we don't do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and… — Jack Campbell Copy Share Image
We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners.… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Besides, Oblonsky was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I promise you the Lord will bless you in your efforts, for this is His work, and He will guide your prayerful… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should… — William James Copy Share Image
[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is… — Amadou Hampate Ba Copy Share Image
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets,… — Robert A. Heinlein 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 of language so obvious to our oral [storytelling] ancestors. Weve lost our ear for the music of language -- for the rhythmic, melodic layer of speech by which…” quote by David Abram](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/023/david-abram-15943_ancestor_entranced-by-the-denotative-power-of-wor_1198850.jpg)
![“Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ad/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_ancestor_three-and-a-half-million-years-ago-our-a_369478.jpg)
![“The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.” quote by John Dryden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/274/john-dryden-491_ancestor_the-longest-tyranny-that-ever-sway-d-was_2677048.jpg)
![“[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it could mean and whether this could be the ancestor song. So, I started writing English lyrics to sort of the same melody.” quote by Lin-Manuel Miranda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5db/lin-manuel-miranda-2352_ancestor_opetaia-foa-i-brought-in-the-melody-and_2061405.jpg)
