Common Ancestor

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or ancestor:

    “We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life.”
    —Book Of Common Prayer, The. The Burial of the Dead (1662)

    “I cannot yet begin to understand
    Why we are proud that an ancestor knew
    The crazy Poe, who was not of our kind
    Bats in the belfry that round and round flew
    In vapors not quite wholesome for the mind.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)