If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest. — Pam Oliver Copy Share Image
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I… — W. S. Gilbert 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
Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson 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
“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” — Wernher Von Braun 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
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
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
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous… — David Hume 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
Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant… — Kenny Ausubel Copy Share Image
We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
“We should have known much more than our ancestors. But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
I'm free... to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't. I can. And my children will. — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood… — Agnes Meyer Driscoll 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
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted… — Mohsin Hamid 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
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
