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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

  Virgil

  Nature, Philosophical, Environmental

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

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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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• Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

  Winona LaDuke

  Ancestor

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Loss, Years, Diversity

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• Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.

  George C. Williams

  Two, Body, Ends

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• John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

  Howard Dean

  Patriot, Joseph Mccarthy

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• 'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.

  Mark Helprin

  Party, Garden, Example

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• A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a public meeting the Prophet Joseph, possibly as a test, sternly rebuked Brigham Young for something he had done or something he was supposed to have done but hadn't - the detail is unclear. When Joseph finished the rebuke, everyone in the room waited for Brigham Young's response. This powerful man, later known as the Lion of the Lord, in a voice everyone could tell was sincere, said simply and humbly, "Joseph, what do you want me to do?"

  Truman G. Madsen

  Powerful, Humility, Men

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• And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

  Marco Rubio

  Airplane, Men, Slave Ships

  "War of Choice" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.

  Serj Tankian

  Industrialization

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• America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

  Alice Walker

  Color, America, Long

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• In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Facts, Century, Fascism

  Jonah Goldberg (2009). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Taken, People

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.6

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