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
Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury;… — Arrian Copy Share Image
It all began when... they're funny, those words. Everyone uses them, without thinking what they mean. When does anything begin? With everyone… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country… — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. — Douglas Alexander Copy Share Image
Over the course of the millennia, all these ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach -… — Jacob G. Hornberger 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 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
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
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
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict.… — John Hench 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
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of our needs in a very complex society, where we encounter more people every day than probably our ancestors encountered over… — Paul Solman Copy Share Image
