Universal Common Ancestor

Famous quotes containing the words universal, common and/or ancestor:

    “The almost universal bareness and smoothness of the landscape were as agreeable as novel, making it so much more like the deck of a vessel.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “In the core of God’s abysm,—
    Was a weed of self and schism;
    And ever the Daemonic Love
    Is the ancestor of wars,
    And the parent of remorse.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)