Ancestorhood Quotes & Sayings

My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy and gives me a reason to stay alive. — Johannes Heesters

You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter, — John Oliver

We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony with our projects, our family members, and our coworkers, and we couldn't believe we were getting paid for this. — Joshua Ferris

Customs represent the experience of mankind. — Henry Ward Beecher

It makes it seem as though there's no door between us at all. The sound of water gathering, cascading, trailing along the planes, ridges, and hollows of his naked body feels more intimate than if he were standing in front of me wearing nothing at all. — Carrie Ryan

I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before. — Jonas Salk

It is this same "central personal vision" that is crucial for Nietzsche, who goes so far as to say, "Whether this taste was good or bad is less important than one might suppose, if only it was a single taste!" It is precisely the "central personal vision" of Lanier and "single taste" of Nietzsche that is lacking in most chatbots. — Brian Christian

We all knew that you'd eventually end up with Macallan. I guess I should be offended, but maybe I read too many romance novels to no want to cheer for the two best friends. — Elizabeth Eulberg

to do wrong for the wrong's sake only — Edgar Allan Poe

Dare the impossible. By grace it will be possible. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying. — Nellie McKay

Great Britain revolutionized parts of their regulatory process by actually bringing the people who were going to be regulated to the table and suddenly found that they could solve the problems at a lot lower cost by, again, going back to the thing that tends to be most uninteresting, particularly in cable news, and looking at the actual process. — Geoff Davis

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that. — Daniel Day-Lewis

My meaning, is, that churchmen in peace and quiet pray to Heaven for the welfare of the world, but we soldiers and knights carry into effect what they pray for, defending it with the might of our arms and the edge of our swords, not under shelter but in the open air, a target for the intolerable rays of the sun in summer and the piercing frosts of winter. Thus are we God's ministers on earth and the arms by which his justice is done therein. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra