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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• 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 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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• Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.

  Richard Allen

  Successful, Blessing, America

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• The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Strong, Hate, Grief

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• The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

  Cory Doctorow

  Country, Home, America

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• ...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hate, Talking, People

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• The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Fire, Errors, Laughing

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.215, Vintage

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• And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they’re old enough to bear it; and when they learn they’ll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Stars, Children, Humanity

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HPMOR)". Serial fan fiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky, www.fanfiction.net. February 28, 2010 – March 14, 2015.

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• Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.

  Lewis Gordon

  Water, Pioneers, Would Be

  "Achieving The Impossible". Book by Lewis Gordon Pugh, 2010.

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• We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for their university tuition or purchase massive fourth homes on private islands with helicopter landing pads. But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

  Miriam Toews

  Girl, Cousin, Children

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