When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
Each of us is the next step in evolution along the lineage created by our two parents. Our higher purpose on earth… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
In the African matrilineal society, the lineage of the bloodline comes down through the female side. The Arabs who invaded East Africa… — John Henrik Clarke 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
Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . .… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean stone. By fire… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“I call this place the mother ache rather than the mother wound because it is not only pain but also longing—the pull… — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
As Africans Americans we often think about the tragic stories associated with our lineage, but there are a lot of triumphs. Traveling… — Laz Alonso Copy Share Image
You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in… — Olivia d'Abo Copy Share Image
“[Arren] was proud of his lineage, but thought of himself as an heir of princes, one of the House of Enlad. Morred,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel… — Lynn Collins Copy Share Image
I don't really see myself in a lineage which is fine with me. Sometimes I do try to explicitly copy an exact… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who are to come. I looked back and saw my… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was Scream Who begat Blood Who begat Eye Who begat Fear Who begat Wing Who begat Bone Who begat… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their… — Tom Devine Copy Share Image