The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?' — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors. — Mau Piailug Copy Share Image
That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable. — Gladys Mitchell Copy Share Image
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“We should have known much more than our ancestors. But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
We are the ancestors of our grandchildren's children. We look after them, just as our ancestors look after us. We aren't here… — Roy Sesana Copy Share Image
Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around… — Mohamed Al-Fayed Copy Share Image
Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
To business."Tux Dude extended his hand. "I am Prometheus." I was too surprised to shake."The fire-stealer guy?The chained-to-the-rock-with-the-vultures guy?" Prometheus winced. He… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I have no absolute right to my wealth; it comes from my ancestors, my parents and from the billions of people who… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
The keys Elijah restored to Joseph Smith permit our hearts to be bound and each of us linked to those of our… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and… — Epifanio de los Santos Copy Share Image
Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Our doctrinal obligation is to our own ancestors. This is because the celestial organization of heaven is based on families. The First… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are creatures. We have a link with a native habitat just like every other species. Throughout most of human history, physical… — David Katz 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
Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted. — Raymond Charles Barker Copy Share Image
The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living. — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. — Butterfly McQueen Copy Share Image
We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor! — George Takei Copy Share Image
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
