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
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
Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression… — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
So what is the Dreaming? I would say the Dreaming is a non-indigenous term used in its broadest sense to describe the… — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my… — Carl Jung 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
“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
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his… — Frederick Henry Hedge Copy Share Image
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression… — Xunzi Copy Share Image
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Occasionally, when I lived in London, I would have sex with a girl from an aristocratic family. I always enjoyed doing to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we… — Bob Waterston Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I will honor my ancestors in StarClan," Bramblestar vowed, "but not those who have ever walked in the Dark Forest. Guide my… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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