You know, my name … comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov.… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you.… — Roy Sesana Copy Share Image
So what is the Dreaming? I would say the Dreaming is a non-indigenous term used in its broadest sense to describe the… — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
We humans are in such a strange position—we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique—unlike… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just… — James Moore Copy Share Image
Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical… — Paul Hindemith Copy Share Image
Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is… — Hirohito Copy Share Image
Our ancestors had to eat whenever food was around. And we're actually still hardwired the same way. The big difference is we… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that… — Kurt Richebacher Copy Share Image
Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
Our ancestors are looking for us even if we're not looking for them. And by our ancestors I mean our bloodlines and… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image