Quotes about ancestors
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It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future. Louise Leakey
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Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.
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With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.
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Worshippers of the demigods go to the demigods, the worshippers of the ancestors go to the ancestors, and the worshippers of the ghosts go to the ghosts, but My devotees come to Me (and are not born again).
adam ancestors chain continuous eventually fathers forge hearts names perform saving temple turn
To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the temple for them. This will forge a continuous chain between us and our forefathers eventually all the way back to Father Adam and Mother Eve. James E. Faust
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We have completed our mission to the EU, now we are on our way to the Balkans. Our ancestors went on horse back, we are going by plane. Abdullah Gul
ancestors camp gods helped hold monsters shape tales terrors
When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it. Kate Forsyth
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In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases. S. Jay Olshansky
ancestors ancient audience audiences court desire enter feeling past speaks woo
There is a feeling of Elizabethan, and there's a feeling of timelessness. My desire is to make the past present, that it speaks to us today. A feeling of ancient ancestors who court and woo each other, so that it's kind of transparent and the audience can enter into this.
ancestors ancestry came care legal
I don't feel like it's right because I feel like all our ancestors came over here and they had to become legal citizens. Why shouldn't every one else? I don't care who you are.
ancestors ancestry arrived glad nine
I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.
ancestors comforts given god levels might possible spirits
It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages. Robert Winston
ancestors strong
I think my ancestors had to be enormously strong emotionally and very courageous. Jim Murphy
ancestors ask citizenship identity land people
Our people ask for nothing more than the recognition of citizenship, nothing more than the right to live on the land where their ancestors were born. Nothing more than their identity cards.
air anatomy ancestors bolt conduct electricity fishy imagine land lightning special system valuable water work
Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were aquatic, because water is so conductive. But it doesn't work on land - air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.
anatomy ancestors fishy
Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it.
ancestors names virtues
From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
america ancestors came children ships slave today
What we know today is that children all over America have the right to learn-whether their ancestors came to America on slave ships or the Mayflower. Mark Pryor
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Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors Tom Snyder
ancestors concerned identities losing north politics separate
My generation, our generation, isn't so much concerned with where you're from. We don't have as much of a connection, a feel for the politics of our ancestors ... we are losing the idea of separate identities between the North and South.
ancestors history include indian largest leaders refused sign stick treaty united war
My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States. Joy Harjo
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My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat. Will Rogers
ancestors ancestry met
My ancestors didn't come over in the Mayflower -- they met the boat.
ancestors came food van
My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food. Richard Flanagan
age ancestors changed considered evidence far goes gone good million modern six time twice upright walking wrote
What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time. Donald Johanson
air ancestors biggest breathing change easy experience expose freed liberating lives range reach remain sensory staying wet within
Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience. Lyall Watson
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Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards. David Suzuki
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My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave. Paul Robeson
american-inventor ancestors desire freely handed highway infinite looked soaring
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air. Wilbur Wright
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This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. Cory Booker
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My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.' Luanne Rice
ancestors beloved cried dock felt gather ghosts imagine knowing land left round stood
I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.
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I traveled to Ireland to research 'Sandcastles,' to visit the coastline where my ancestors looked toward America, the tiny town they once loved so much, and the docks from which they sailed toward their dreams of building a better life for their family. The answers I found on that journey are woven through the novel.