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
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
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants. — Pierre Trudeau 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
Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions… — St. George Tucker 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
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
There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also… — Gary Johnson 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
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
Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants. — Katharine Anthony Copy Share Image
In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 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
God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations: We are deeply saddened by… — Pope John Paul II 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
Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country? — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.” — Olin Miller Copy Share Image
He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the… — William Faulkner 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
I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers… — H. P. Blavatsky 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