Ancestry Quote by Lucan Download Open image “Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.” — Lucan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestry Men Shadow
Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him. — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground. — William Tyler Copy Share Image
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“My dearest one, it is not proper for men to be without names. There was a time when each man had a name of his own to distinguish him from all other men. So let us choose our names. I have read of a man who lived many thousands of years ago, and of all the names in these books,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. — Lucan Copy Share Image
The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods… — Lucan Copy Share Image
“Inde lacessitum primo mare, cum rudis Argo Miscuit ignotas temerato litore gentes Priamque cum ventis pelagique furentibus undis Conposuit mortale genus, fatisque per ilam… — Lucan Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods. — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated it for… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
