Aboriginal Family Preservation

Famous quotes containing the words aboriginal, family and/or preservation:

    “John Eliot came to preach to the Podunks in 1657, translated the Bible into their language, but made little progress in aboriginal soul-saving. The Indians answered his pleas with: ‘No, you have taken away our lands, and now you wish to make us a race of slaves.’”
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program. Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore, and People (The WPA Guide to Connecticut)

    “My family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”
    —Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)