Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian. — Allen Sapp 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
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams. — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. — Robert Bly 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
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
Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen.… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of… — Christopher Tunnard Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When our ancestors were attacked at Pearl Harbor, they called it a day that would live in infamy. The day the Partials… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded… — Hannibal Copy Share Image
“And yet Xiao Li always spoke of her mother as if her image were mounted in a red-and-gold picture frame resting on… — Victor Robert Lee 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
Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
“Here it is necessary briefly to consider the question of the cult of ancestors before venturing farther. The spirits of the departed… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Nature and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud warnings. Today you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms,… — Thomas Banyacya Copy Share Image
You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.;… — Ludwig von Mises 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 civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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