The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.” — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
“If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers. — Roh Moo-hyun Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to,… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Most of what we know about human evolution comes from these: the fossilized bones of our ancestors. With their help, we've traced… — Ziya Tong Copy Share Image
While I do not believe the earth loaned to us by our ancestors should be plagued by chemical horrors and thereby corrupted… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the collective unconscious. The idea that there is a deep connection between all of us that goes… — Miroslav Penkov 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
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
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
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
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
Our doctrinal obligation is to our own ancestors. This is because the celestial organization of heaven is based on families. The First… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground. — Henry S. F. Cooper Copy Share Image
You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom. — Nick Bakay Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“If we go far enough back, any two people on Earth have a common ancestor.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
