Descendants Quotes

143 Descendants quotes by 129 unique authors

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
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
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. — Plato
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living. — Karen Lord

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