The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Ignatius Donnelly Copy Share Image
Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be… — Ferdinand von Mueller Copy Share Image
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. — Euripides Copy Share Image
The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
When biblical material touches on the natural world, we can legitimately use the tools of science. Sometimes that shows us - no… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory,… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity)… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely to secure for the German people the land and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God… — William Penn Copy Share Image
