Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury;… — Arrian Copy Share Image
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are… — Alain de Botton 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
One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our… — Richard Leakey 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
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you.… — Roy Sesana Copy Share Image
Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are… — Edward Robert Harrison 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
Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts… — Evelyn Waugh 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
“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Maybe, it is easier to forget the past, than to overcome the pain caused by it. Maybe, it is one of some… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since… — P.D. Ouspensky 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
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of… — H. G. Wells 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
When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Well, how'd we get to talking about our ancestors? People think we don't talk about anything else in Charleston. — Josephine Pinckney Copy Share Image
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We… — Crazy Horse 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
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
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