Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
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
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the… — William James Copy Share Image
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty... — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
There are Turks who don't admit that their ancestors committed genocide. If you look at it though, they seem to be nice… — Hrant Dink Copy Share Image
I believe that our distant nomadic ancestors came forward and survived because they could hear distant, faint birdsong as an acoustic navigational… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Hamilton had a complaint. "Why did you have to tell the cops I'm your boyfriend? That's gross, Amy. We're related!" Amy was… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married… — Jennifer Crusie 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape, In forms imaginary, th' unguided days And rotten times that you shall… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of… — Ernst Moritz Arndt Copy Share Image
What we've inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before. And if we fail to preserve it, it will… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from… — Plato Copy Share Image
But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
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