We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The Ojibways have great respect for the Bear. According to their legends, in the distant past the Bear had a human form… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Some of the very heroic and colourful figures in our history are sons of Sabaragamuwa - Parakramabahu I, born in Dedigama, the… — Dominicus Corea Copy Share Image
There are some who ask us to believe that if we want the best of times for ourselves, the fit and the… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The most sensitive frequencies are at the resonant frequencies of the auditory canal. In other words, the ear has shaped itself to… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance.… — Cole Younger Copy Share Image
Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Cooking is what makes us human. For example, Chimpanzees spend eight to ten hours trying to feed themselves, they are occupied by… — Jonathan Gold Copy Share Image
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“and do not speak to me, please, of African Eve or LUCA, the three-and-a-half-billion-year-old blob of goo that was our Last Universal… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because… — Lisa Birnbach Copy Share Image
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The forces of genetic mixing are so powerful that everyone in the world has Jewish ancestors, though the amount of DNA from… — Steve Olson Copy Share Image
NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors;… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It is tragic that so few young people in Western democracies vote. They have forgotten that their ancestors fought for the right… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the largest voluntary… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
