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
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
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
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
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
Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that… — Kurt Richebacher Copy Share Image
Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on… — Swami Vivekananda 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
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
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are… — Edward Robert Harrison 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for… — Carl Sagan 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
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
