To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact. — Luisah Teish Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“An ancestor from the 1530s would find little different in the 1930s. [Basilicata, Italy]” — Maria Martin Copy Share Image
We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors. — Andre Maurois 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
You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty…And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of… — Aime Cesaire 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 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
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
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
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The forces of genetic mixing are so powerful that everyone in the world has Jewish ancestors, though the amount of DNA from… — Steve Olson Copy Share Image
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved… — Scott Adams 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
“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
You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam. I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything… — Marion G. Romney 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
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
“If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.” — John Perry Barlow 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 ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought. — Eknath Easwaran 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
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
Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image