Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Iraqi fighters on the front lines, You courageous officers and soldiers who have been fighting valiantly and efficiently - you have restored… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to… — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends” — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe… — Sol Saks Copy Share Image
As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation. — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
