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We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.


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We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. . -...
ANCIENT PROVERB We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
DAVID BROWER We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children
DAVID BROWER We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
BRIAN LEGGERO We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
BRIAN JENKINS LEGGERO We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
HAIDA INDIAN SAYING We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it form our children.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So ...
JACK HORNER We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to al...
MOSS CASS We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO We know that genes shape human cultures and human societies: The DNA we inherited from our ancestors...
SAM KEAN We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR Knowledge is borrowed. Imagination is original. It is the power of imagination that makes us differe...
BANANI RAY We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we d...
DIANE ACKERMAN We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called ...
MAURICE STRONG I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean tha...
CAROL BRAUN I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean tha...
CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN Therefore the messages coming from our altars must change. We must have a shift! “CHURCHSHIFT
SUNDAY ADELAJA When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds onl...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to ...
CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN Take care of our own Mother Earth, it is the only so beautiful planet we have to live on. Use/produc...
EMA DAN Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is ow...
DR. CARL SAGAN A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN We should feel empowered by where we came from and who we are, not hide it. It is important to ackno...
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
PROVERB All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about...
EDWARD BALL Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO We hope that we will hear from all members of our community whether or not they have children in the...
ANN CLARK Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the freedoms and the op...
ALAN NUNNELEE My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
ERIC CANTONA Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed ou...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that ...
KATHA POLLITT We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Par...
ROBERT ATKYNS Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the...
MICHAEL SHERMER Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.
AMIT KALANTRI It shows that it was not only big cats our ancestors had to be afraid of. It was also these creature...
LEE BERGER It shows that it was not only big cats our ancestors had to be afraid of. It was also these creature...
LEE BERGER It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of ...
HENRIK IBSEN The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
JOSE MOURINHO Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost un...
GARY HAMEL There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we...
LIBBA BRAY It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We owe it to our ancestors and our children to keep this celebration going. We just can't stop. This...
ARTHUR HARDY Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and cont...
BERTRAND RUSSELL We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe i...
JUNIUS For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we b...
JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE We're living on borrowed time. We have to demonstrate what we can do on our own before it is taken o...
DAVID LANEY We have already had an amazing amount of support come from the community, but the only way our dream...
JO VANDVER The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now res...
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surg...
MAGDI YACOUB We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, no...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our com...
JONATHAN SACKS Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls...
CHIEF SEATTLE (SEALTH), SUQUAMISH CHIEF Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish.
It makes sense to revere the S...
CARL SAGAN My generation, our generation, isn't so much concerned with where you're from. We don't have as much...
JEFF JACKSON Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost...
NORMAN DOIDGE Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of a...
URSULA K. LEGUIN We read about these things only in the media, but we have not received anything official from the co...
ISSAM GHAZAWI We have completed our mission to the EU, now we are on our way to the Balkans. Our ancestors went on...
ABDULLAH GUL We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
ABRAM SACHER We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges
ABRAM SACHER Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do n...
BETTY WILLIAMS Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from g...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from g...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even th...
RANDY WAYNE WHITE We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations ins...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.
MOLIERE The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.
ELIF SHAFAK Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our ch...
FRANCES BEINECKE As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancest...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN ...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the co...
ELLEN DEGENERES we did not have the appropriate balance that our client expects from us.
ANN TAYLOR Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them t...
HELEN HAYS We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ig...
PATRICIA SUN Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Atlantis was one name for an ancient civilization that went through a terrible catastrophe and that ...
DAVID WILCOCK We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only whe...
A.J. DARKHOLME Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another....
VOLTAIRE Usually we only see a thick vapor layer from Earth, but with our camera we can look into it, see sha...
HORST UWE KELLER We drew on plans borrowed from Buffalo,
WILLIAM PICKETT We have not heard about any problem at our end, ... We have heard of problems with the localized fee...
ANNE MARIE Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love,...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Not that it?s an excuse but our inexperience shines through in tight games. We have only three retur...
DAVE BOSSO We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren h...
JIM CLYBURN We've taken a page from our friends in the maps teams and borrowed a bit from the desktop team.
DAVE GIROUARD We always have dinner together as a family - even when our schedules are totally hectic. I inherited...
KIM RAVER Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of o...
KILROY J. OLDSTER I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protec...
TOM ALLEN Through most of human history, our ancestors had children shortly after puberty, just as the members...
ROBERT EPSTEIN Not only will we be able to stay here, but we will be able to expand our programs and serve even mor...
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PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
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PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
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PROVERB A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
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PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB Rest breeds rust.
PROVERB The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
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PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
PROVERB The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB Force without forecast is to little avail.
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PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
PROVERB Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
PROVERB Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
PROVERB Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
PROVERB There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
PROVERB Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
PROVERB Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
PROVERB Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB Time and I against any two.
PROVERB The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB Lost time is never found again.
PROVERB Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
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PROVERB Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
PROVERB In teaching others we teach ourselves.
PROVERB He who does not research has nothing to teach.
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PROVERB He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
PROVERB No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
PROVERB Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
PROVERB Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
PROVERB Who has a trade may go anywhere.
PROVERB No one was ever lost on a straight road.
PROVERB Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
PROVERB That which proves too much, proves nothing!
PROVERB When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
PROVERB If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
PROVERB The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
PROVERB Never say die.
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PROVERB If you wish for peace be ready for war.
PROVERB When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
PROVERB Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
PROVERB Peace with a club in hand is war.
PROVERB If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
PROVERB Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
PROVERB Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
PROVERB Patience is the key to paradise.
PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
PROVERB Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
PROVERB That which is escaped now is pain to come.
PROVERB A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
PROVERB Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
PROVERB Riches have wings.
PROVERB A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
PROVERB As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
PROVERB You can't take it with you when you go.
PROVERB After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
PROVERB Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
PROVERB Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
PROVERB No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
PROVERB The gods sell all things at a fair price.
PROVERB Something you don't want is dear at any price.
PROVERB We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
PROVERB Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
PROVERB Necessity unites.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
PROVERB Time tries truth.
PROVERB Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB Truth is the daughter of time.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
PROVERB Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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