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
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. — Chief Seattle 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
Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself? — Haile Selassie 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
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
Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them… — Ziya Tong Copy Share Image
If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No Christian assumes the Jews are right about everything, but they knew God during tens of centuries during which my ancestors were… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us:… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes.… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are creatures. We have a link with a native habitat just like every other species. Throughout most of human history, physical… — David Katz Copy Share Image
Hijras earn a living by egging, sex work, badhai or blessing. There are now transgenders in social work, the fashion industry, who… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Healthy areas that are richest in information are those areas in the wild where we can get all the information that's available… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked. — Luisah Teish Copy Share Image
I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually… — Martha Brooks Copy Share Image
What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood,… — Voltaire 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
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
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
