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
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of… — Angela Carter 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
The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is… — Amadou Hampate Ba Copy Share Image
Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked. — Luisah Teish Copy Share Image
Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state… — William James Copy Share Image
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux 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
Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or… — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far… — Richard Thornton Copy Share Image
“If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
We need to consider ancestral cleansing. If we're willing to clear our energy fields of the ancestral energies we don't want, then… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
But what about you? Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image