If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets… — Walter Cronkite 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
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests.… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud… — Swami Vivekananda 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
In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
I have lived in the redness of the stones that mark a path through my blood; I am the descendant of a… — Mohammed Khair-Eddine Copy Share Image
Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are… — King Hussein I 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
I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the… — Stephen Kinzer 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
...The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image