Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I am a Malayali. My ancestors are from Tamil Nadu, but they settled in Irinjalakuda. — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.” — Liam Callanan Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The American people understand that what makes the nation great is not people's bloodlines or how long ago their ancestors arrived here,… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Your ancestors have shaped your past, we as your parents will help shape your present, but only you can shape your future.” — Mikey D.B Copy Share Image
“It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.' She looked up from her book. 'I would hope, though,' she went… — David Almond Copy Share Image
With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our… — Jim Walsh 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
There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
If anyone can say 'go back,' it's Native Americans. My Pueblo ancestors, despite being targeted at every juncture - despite facing famine… — Deb Haaland 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
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
“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
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
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
“Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names. At some point… — Henry Wiencek Copy Share Image
If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
“More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mountain’s realization comes through the details of the breath, mountain appears in each step. Mountain then lives inside our bones, inside our… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions.… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“Turn that worthless lawn into a beautiful garden of food whose seeds are stories sown, whose foods are living origins. Grow a… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
“Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hundreds of things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
