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
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
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself? — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
It is said that our indigenous ancestors, Mayas and Aztecs, made human sacrifices to their gods. It occurs to me to ask:… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors. — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is… — Hirohito Copy Share Image
Our ancestors had to eat whenever food was around. And we're actually still hardwired the same way. The big difference is we… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
To be treaty person means coexist in peace and with mutual respect. That's at the core of these treaties. They intended for… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature… — Robert Frenay Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you discuss the beliefs of Christianity with the village diviner, the medicine man, he will say the white man must be… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. — Douglas Alexander Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma — E.D. Baker Copy Share Image
My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers. — Nainoa Thompson Copy Share Image
My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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