Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
“For more than a century now, Lady Beatrice Rockford (1811-1850) has been known as "that wicked American" and her husband, the fifth… — Alexandra Monir Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is the most polite word for abuse aka denying equal opportunity by anyone in power based on age, ancestry, color, disability… — Ramesh Lohia Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States entered into World War II to protect our way of life and to… — Kara Martinelli Copy Share Image
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. — Alan Robinson Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry. — Archibald F. Bennett Copy Share Image
You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry. — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute… — Wilma Scott Heide Copy Share Image
I have a musical ancestry as much as I have a family ancestry. Honoring those ancestors gives you access to a greater… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean stone. By fire… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“I call this place the mother ache rather than the mother wound because it is not only pain but also longing—the pull… — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I… — Augustus Washington Copy Share Image
Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
