I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their… — David Foster Wallace 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
“it was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom. — Ezola B. Foster 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
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
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal… — Samuel Adams 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
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
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to… — Patrick Henry 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
Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since… — P.D. Ouspensky 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
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
I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct… — Jim Thorpe Copy Share Image
The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Every day, the temperature of Sol's surface increases by five billionths of a degree, a change of no consequence for thousands of… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our… — Erik Brynjolfsson 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
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
If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image