Descendants Quotes
143 Descendants quotes by 129 unique authors
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Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved…
— William E. Simon
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As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when…
— Saint Augustine
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
— Plato
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But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right…
— Robert L. Reymond
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...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the…
— Unknown Author
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Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may…
— John Holdren
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The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions:…
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those…
— Benito Mussolini
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My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which…
— Richard Rorty
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This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation.
— Ken Ham
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Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in…
— Richard Allen
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Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is…
— Ernst Mayr
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I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill…
— Sam Houston
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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 our children or pay for…
— Miriam Toews
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Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when…
— P D Ouspensky
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We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny…
— Sol Saks
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People at present think that five sons are not too many and each son has five sons also, and before the death of the grandfather…
— Han Fei
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I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud that I am…
— Swami Vivekananda
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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
— David Foster Wallace
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Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of…
— Greg Egan
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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer…
— Unknown Author
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Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
— Plato
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Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go…
— Colin Jordan
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Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.
— Karen Lord
Who Wrote These Descendants Quotes
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