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A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.
My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
In France, when there was a war, we fought and our ancestors fought, though many had real reason to flee the Germans.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese.
We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.
I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials.
I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.
I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.
I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create.
When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.
I've danced hula since I was 5. My mom danced hula as well. It's been in my family from far back and really connected me to my ancestors.
Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
In China there is a holiday around the death of your ancestors where everyone goes to the cemetery. It's a celebratory thing. It's very colorful.
My ancestors are Highland Scots, and my father's home in north Alabama is so much like northwest Arkansas. I have the same allergies in both places.
Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts.
Our ancestors went through so much in a fight for us to vote. So I believe that we should engage in all civic participation. It's healthy engagement.
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor.
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.
The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came from. I just know County Cork.
Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.
I love myself, I love my skin, and I love my history. I'm grateful for who I am, grateful for the people who made me, my ancestors, and I wouldn't change a thing.