Ancestry Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Download Open image “Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestry Blood Blood Destiny Destiny Destiny Genius Genius Genius Descends Grandparent Lines Long Long lines Parents and grandparents Streams
“why can we never talk about the blood. the blood of our ancestors. the blood of our history. the blood between our legs. – blood” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“Blood is a reservoir of delights. It is a treasure trove for those who know what to look for, and how to isolate it… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
“The theory that holds "good blood" or "bad blood" as a moral-intellectual criterion , can lead to nothing but torrents of blood in practice.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Is not only by blood that family is made, it by the bond that tie us together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous 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… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
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
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across… — Anonymous Copy Share Image