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143 Descendants quotes by 129 unique authors
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Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their…
— Tamora Pierce
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
— Beatrix Potter
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The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of…
— Cory Doctorow
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...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle…
— Nikolai Gogol
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And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good,…
— Jose Rizal
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I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful,…
— Charles Dickens
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I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman,…
— Charles Dickens
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A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of…
— Carl Sagan
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There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember…
— Anthony Marra
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When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will…
— John Ruskin
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When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be…
— John Ruskin
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One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or…
— Unknown Author
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Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and…
— Starhawk
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When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will…
— Adolf Hitler
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When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed…
— Charles Darwin
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There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals of our society,…
— Seth Shostak
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All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.
— Jan C. Ting
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Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will…
— Winona LaDuke
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