There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free. — Russell Means 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
We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us:… — Chinua Achebe 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
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?' — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I am very proud of Zendaya for standing up for herself, her generation and her ancestors. Her response was classy. Locs are… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell Copy Share Image
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. — James Russell Lowell 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
Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
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