Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Now, they invent them deliberately just… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The Ojibways have great respect for the Bear. According to their legends, in the distant past the Bear had a human form… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam. I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum… — Sallust Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've… — Julius Lester 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
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
There are things we don't do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and… — Jack Campbell Copy Share Image
I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
