Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
“We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober 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
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. — Ovid Copy Share Image
...the original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No… — Terri Runnels 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
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“Each of us carries a story written in the language of our mothers, still echoing through our bones.” — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which… — Warder Clyde Allee Copy Share Image
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
