My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way — Ali Shariati Copy Share Image
So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself? — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom. — Nick Bakay Copy Share Image
I will honor my ancestors in StarClan," Bramblestar vowed, "but not those who have ever walked in the Dark Forest. Guide my… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to… — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that we may use for our own ends. Regardless of our… — Charles Kellogg Copy Share Image
What task could be more agreeable than to tell of the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors, so that you may… — William of Malmesbury Copy Share Image
He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor;… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls… — Nainoa Thompson Copy Share Image
It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
