The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis,… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If we dig deep in our history and remember that we are not descendants from fearful people, we proclaim ourselves indeed as… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution',… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The forces of genetic mixing are so powerful that everyone in the world has Jewish ancestors, though the amount of DNA from… — Steve Olson Copy Share Image
The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants.… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for… — Miriam Toews 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
The spiritual destiny of Hawaii has been shaped by a Calvinist theory of paternalism enacted by the descendants of the missionaries who… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood;… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
We now think it hilarious that medieval streets were used as open sewers. Equally, our descendants will say: 'You won't believe this,… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would… — Kate Sanborn Copy Share Image
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors… — D. J. Taylor Copy Share Image
America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
I regard the 'Descendants' as a melodrama, and all scenes have been the trappings to increase the element of romance, I thought.… — Song Joong-ki Copy Share Image
We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well,… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
![“The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their…” quote by George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dba/george-washington-257_advantage_the-policy-or-advantage-of-immigration-t_2798211.jpg)
