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The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given. - Jose Serrano Quotes
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise. - Edward Sellner Quotes
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. - Thomas Sowell Quotes
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. - Claude Vorilhon Quotes
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. - James Nasmyth Quotes
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions. - Walter Lippmann Quotes
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. - Jim Walsh Quotes
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching. - Paul Tsongas Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Washingtons troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave. - Paul Robeson Quotes
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. - Robert T Bakker Quotes
Latinos have fought in all of Americas wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago. - Joe Baca Quotes
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. - Phyllis George Quotes
Our ancestors were very smart people. I have a sinking feeling they were much more educated than we, and that they got smarter much younger than we. - Nick Clooney Quotes
Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. Im not sure. - Brendan Fraser Quotes
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them werent even mammals. - Robert Anton Wilson Quotes
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. - Anita Desai Quotes
I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa. - Richard Leakey Quotes
We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of. - Mikhail Saakashvili Quotes
We were never meant to be the worlds greatest debtor nation. We were never meant to have our ancestors patrimony sold to the highest foreign bidder. - Paul Tsongas Quotes
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you dont get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton. - Donald Johanson Quotes
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. - Don Marquis Quotes
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. - Elayne Boosler Quotes
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated. - John Hench Quotes
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. - Pete Seeger Quotes
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. - Pete Du Pont Quotes
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. - John Ciardi Quotes
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him. - Immanuel Velikovsky Quotes
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on ones wife alone. - Guru Nanak Quotes
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. - Joan D Vinge Quotes
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