Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We don't have previous lives; we have ancestors. We don't have afterlives; we have descendants. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
Our forefathers marched so that we could now have an opportunity to live. — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“I am everyone who played a role in creating me...my ancestors.” — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind. — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials. — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The way I see it, my ancestors put a lot of effort into getting out of the goddamn ocean and I don’t… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we… — S. Jay Olshansky 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
There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
“If you’ve never dealt with your ancestors, let me give you a word of advice. Don’t expect straight answers. And don’t be… — Juliette Harper Copy Share Image
If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“Mountains have long been a geography for pilgrimage, place where people have been humbled and strengthened, they are symbols of the sacred… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face,… — Edgar Rice Burroughs 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
“Our ancestors have much to answer for. Why? What did they do? …Long ago, they used machines and drugs to keep the… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“On problems finding female ancestors,of any background, remember "I cannot put gas in my car without a note from my husband. The… — Christina Kassabian Schaefer Copy Share Image
“Mei reached into her pocket and took out another steamed egg cake, this one topped with a dark red date. "How about… — Elizabeth Lim Copy Share Image
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