Descendants Quotes

• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• I have lived in the redness of the stones that mark a path through my blood; I am the descendant of a forgotten race, but I carry in my hands the remnants of their fire.

  Mohammed Khair-Eddine

  Blood, Hands, Fire

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• We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Important, Forget, Prosperity

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “The Big Stick, 1905-1909”

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• Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Happy, Future

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mother, Hard Work, Feet

  "Honor the Earth: The Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides". Short documentary narrated by Winona LaDuke, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2013.

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• Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Xenophobia, Patriotic, Usa

  Remarks before Daughters of the American Revolution Convention, Washington, D.C., 21 Apr. 1938. Often paraphrased as Roosevelt's addressing the DAR as "my fellow immigrants."

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• Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

  Virgil

  Nature, Philosophical, Environmental

  "Eclogues" by Virgil, Book IX, (Line 50), 37 BC.

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• Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

  Winona LaDuke

  Ancestor

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• If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Good Person, Goodness, Persons

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.

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• Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need for a Savior is an allegory - but if we are all descendants of an allegory, where does that leave us? It destroys the foundation of all Christian doctrine-it destroys the foundation of the gospel.

  Ken Ham

  Christian, Book, Fall

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• It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

  Saint Augustine

  Opposites, Race, Earth

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• I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.

  Maya Angelou

  United States, States, United

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Men, Thinking, Should

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.

  Sidney Lanier

  Strong, Men, Branches

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• We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Adam, Miscegenation, Products

  Lester B. Pearson (1968). “Peace in the family of man”

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• We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Pain, Usual

  Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures...

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Father, Blessing, Race

  "The Church of Latter-Day Saints: Heterosexism, Racism and ‘Revelation’" by Warren J. Blumenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

  Benito Mussolini

  Rome, Doctrine, Looks

  "Hitler's Ten-year War on the Jews". Book by the Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1943.

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• This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation.

  Ken Ham

  Mean, Aliens, Sin

  "We’ll find a new earth within 20 years" by Ken Ham, answersingenesis.org. July 20, 2014.

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• I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.

  Kage Baker

  Writing, Technology, Thinking

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• You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Fine, Automobile

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• I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

  Beatrix Potter

  Personality, Generations, Influence

  Beatrix Potter (1982). “Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters”

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• I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

  Tamora Pierce

  Dog, Forever, Want

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• To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

  Augustus Hare

  Home, Paradise, Adam

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• Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Stars, War

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