Ancestor Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention…

— Richard A. Falk

“Baby, I bear remnants of you on my body, on my soul. I always have, I always will, gladly. I just want you to…

— Kunal Sen

The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in…

— Richelle Mead

What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

— Helen Keller

In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other…

— Donna J. Haraway

Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to…

— L. Neil Smith

I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of…

— Betye Saar

Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud,…

— Gary Valentine

I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President, it seemed.…

— Bill Hicks

There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have…

— John Quincy Adams

Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this…

— Bill Bryson

When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports…

— Anonymous