Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come. — Kenny Ausubel Copy Share Image
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. — Moliere Copy Share Image
My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham. — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own… — Francis Herbert Hedge Copy Share Image
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically. — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“and do not speak to me, please, of African Eve or LUCA, the three-and-a-half-billion-year-old blob of goo that was our Last Universal… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Cooking is what makes us human. For example, Chimpanzees spend eight to ten hours trying to feed themselves, they are occupied by… — Jonathan Gold Copy Share Image
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because… — Lisa Birnbach Copy Share Image
This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
“The ancestors of the higher animals must be regarded as one-celled beings, similar to the Amoebae which at the present day occur… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
