Ancestor Quote by Jonas Salk Download Open image “The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'” — Jonas Salk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestor Asks Be good Important Important questions Inspirational
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.” — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.” — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
We are the ancestors of our grandchildren's children. We look after them, just as our ancestors look after us. We aren't here for ourselves.… — Roy Sesana Copy Share Image
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like,… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the… — Anna Thomas Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
