“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.” — Alfred W. Crosby Copy Share Image
“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends” — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
“Time is the ultimate critic. What future generations think of us and our work ultimately determines our standing or lack of it.” — Stewart Stafford 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
“Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that… — John Templeton 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
I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons… — John Ralston Saul 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
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story… — Afua Cooper Copy Share Image
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
“If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton 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
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Our brains are continuing to evolve, and perhaps a few tens of thousands of years from now, our descendants will walk around… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance:… — Eve Curie Copy Share Image
The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country… — Julius Streicher 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
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a… — Sidney Lanier 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
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
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
![“I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]” quote by Tamora Pierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6d5/tamora-pierce-935_beka-cooper_i-will-be-known-forever-as-the-puppy-who_17776.jpg)
