Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that… — Owen Wister 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
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Rastafari is our king or emperor, and being a king, being an emperor you've been taught all the ways of the ancestors.… — Sizzla Copy Share Image
The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Latinos have fought in all of America’s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
One of our ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and we had family in Jamestown as well... I was raised where service… — Steve Daines Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to… — Kage Baker 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
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
Hijras earn a living by egging, sex work, badhai or blessing. There are now transgenders in social work, the fashion industry, who… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
But what about you? Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“No sane paleontologist would ever claim that he or she had discovered "The Ancestor." Think about it this way: What is the… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state… — William James Copy Share Image
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or… — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. Then steadily and consistently work to provide ordinances in the temple for your own ancestors. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict.… — John Hench Copy Share Image
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. — Scott McCloud 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
Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
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