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Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read. Diane Ackerman
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We owe it to our ancestors and our children to keep this celebration going. We just can't stop. This is so important for us, G. H. Hardy
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Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people. David Brin
ancestors brag unworthy
They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them
ancestors forget strangers
We should never forget that all of our ancestors were once strangers here.
ancestors combined effective independence jewish land modern relatively revolt roman time
In the modern era, Jewish sovereignty over the land of our ancestors is a relatively short phenomenon. From the time of the successful Maccabean revolt to the Roman annexation in 63 BC constitutes about 100 years of Jewish rule. Combined with Israel's independence in 1948, this is about 160 years of effective sovereignty. Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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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.
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Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive. Fiona Apple
ancestors help people reason trying understand
We're trying to help people understand that people come here for the same reason that our ancestors did: opportunity.
ancestors family history trace
I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people. Kim Edwards
ancestors ancestry list
Other ancestors that you have can also be certified. The list is always growing.
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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
ancestors gathered
Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi. John Burnside
ancestors country later people seeds sow taught treat
Our ancestors taught them how to sow maize, later how to sow the seeds of this country. And now they treat us like this . . . treat us like criminals. Our people just come here to work.
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It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals. Ruth Reichl
ancestors came either including native respect somewhere
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
ancestors culture holding test
This is too important to fail, because it is holding a nation's--holding a people's--culture in my hands, ... My litmus test will be, Would my ancestors be happy?
ancestors maybe people saying
As he was doing it, he was saying maybe these are some of my ancestors and my people here. It really was something for him.
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If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight. Michael Specter
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I'm really interested in the history of life in general. How life began to how birds evolved to what our ancestors looked like. Carl Zimmer
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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves. Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I realize many of my ancestors fought so I could have the opportunities I have today, and I appreciate them for the sacrifices they made for us.
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I read the label underneath, That telleth me whereto I must; I see the sentence eke that saith 'Remember, man, that thou art dust!' But yet, alas, but seldom I Do think indeed that I must die - My ancestors are turned to clay, And many of my mates ar Robert Southwell
ancestors biggest book evolution evolve history human papers people questions scientific spent spring talking time walk
I read a lot of scientific papers on the history of evolution and spent time talking to scientists. I started to write it in the spring of 2004 and wanted the book to look at the biggest questions people have about human origins, such as what were the first hominids and how did our ancestors evolve to walk upright?
ancestors black creates enormous logic negative people positive problems society trapped white
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. Henry Louis Gates
ancestors canadians country example freedom gratitude helped intense origin reflects ukrainian
It reflects an intense personal, as well as a national, gratitude for what Ukrainian Canadians have done for freedom in the country of origin of their ancestors and the example they helped set for the world, Adrienne Clarkson
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All these ancestors of mine, when they arrived here, there weren't restrictions on them as there are now. Who's to say whether they would have been able to come themselves if there had been restrictions? But I'm glad they did, because here I am. Jerry Coleman
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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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No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors. Lucy Maud Montgomery
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[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection. Sam Heughan
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Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank. Winona LaDuke
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Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me. Tad Williams