Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors. — William Kean Seymour Copy Share Image
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. — Horace Copy Share Image
The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors. — Denis Parsons Burkitt Copy Share Image
When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“ancestor. In fact, this clock tells us that all seven billion people alive today can trace their maternal lineage to one woman… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy,… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin… — Sam Francis Copy Share Image
“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor,… — Norman F. Cantor 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
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
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance.… — Cole Younger Copy Share Image
Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The most sensitive frequencies are at the resonant frequencies of the auditory canal. In other words, the ear has shaped itself to… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
“I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Here it is necessary briefly to consider the question of the cult of ancestors before venturing farther. The spirits of the departed… — Lewis Spence 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
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country… — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes. — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
