It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell Copy Share Image
“Tradition is not just a word. It's who you are, where you came from and where you will always belong. Never take… — Wahab Oriyomi Osuolale Copy Share Image
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
I love myself, I love my skin, and I love my history. I'm grateful for who I am, grateful for the people… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music… — Burna Boy Copy Share Image
I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
As a woman of color, I always pay homage to my ancestors and elders - in the industry in particular - who… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
The American idea my ancestors fought for during the Revolutionary War is as exciting and revolutionary today as it was 250 years ago. — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our ancestors went through so much in a fight for us to vote. So I believe that we should engage in all… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
“Your feelings are the voice of millions of ancestors, each of whom managed to survive and reproduce in an unforgiving environment. Your” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are a country where the ancestors of slaves and newcomers escaping tyranny and violence can rise to the highest positions in… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm especially honored that The Black Gents will debut Off-Broadway and pay tribute to The Tuskegee Airmen and other ancestors of that… — Lamman Rucker Copy Share Image
One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started… — Goran Dragic Copy Share Image
Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties. — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
“Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one.” — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
