Jimmy Carter Quotes
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
Zubin Mehta
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I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
Taylor Swift
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
Sallust
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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
Taylor Caldwell
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
Buzz Aldrin
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Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.
Rachel Caine
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I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.
Jack Warner
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To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
Plutarch
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Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
Charles Dickens
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
Moliere
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As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.
Butterfly McQueen
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Once our idea of heaven meant all the dead relatives waiting on the kept lawn of the many mansions as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing to do.
Deborah Digges
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History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors.
Bob Irwin
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Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.
Anna Thomas
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The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
Georgette Heyer
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I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 18, 1948, as the elder son of Karl and Frieda Michel. My ancestors lived in that area for generations, mainly as farmers.
Hartmut Michel
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Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps
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The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of insurance and current license and registration.
Hank Stuever
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To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.
Ed Westwick
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We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.
Noah Baumbach
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We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
Jimmy Carter