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" All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants. "
Jan C. Ting
" All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners. "
Edward Ball
" All sorts of other lies are being spread today, I do not know what else they will invent. I've heard that I'm of Jewish descent, but I found, I knew of my ancestors in Zagorje from around 350 years ago, and I said, maybe it would be good to have some of that, I guess I would be richer, I might not have become a Communist. "
Franjo Tudjman
" All the scars on my body, all the bumps and bruises, all the muscles - that is a story of everything I have done. And it's not just my story. My ancestors who came before me gave me this vessel to sculpt and mold. "
Rose Namajunas
" Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries. "
Gordon Brown
" Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind. "
Herbert A. Simon
" As I got more involved in music, one of the things that made me excited, from the time I was a child, was that clear link between our ancestors and the sounds we hear today. "
Taj Mahal
" As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. "
Daniel J. Boorstin
" As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial. "
Kenneth R. Miller
" Being a son of the South puts you in a different position when it comes to the Confederate flag. It means something entirely different to the people who have ancestors who fought in the Civil War on the south side of the Mason-Dixon line. "
Steve King
" 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. "
F. Sionil Jose
" Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
" Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
" English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies. "
Roy Blount, Jr.
" Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
" Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
" For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion. "
Christopher McDougall
" Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch. "
Rory Bremner
" Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned. "
Paul Di Filippo
" Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. "
John Ciardi
" Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity. "
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
" Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. "
Joan D. Vinge
" I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that. "
George M. Church
" I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them. "
Louise Erdrich
" I don't think many of us face the same sort of physical adventures our ancestors did, at least not on a daily basis. "
Jim Murphy
" I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials. "
Emil Ferris
" 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. "
John Edgar Wideman
" I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese. "
Goldie Hawn
" 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. "
Michael Connelly
" In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis. "
Herbert A. Simon
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