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.
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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.
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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.
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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
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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.
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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.
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I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.
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To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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...the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.
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As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.
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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.
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History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors.
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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.
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The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
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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.
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It's a time for us to take counsel from God rather than give him counsel about all the things we think he ought to be doing.
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To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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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.
