Descent Quotes

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

It?s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day .

Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.

The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.

Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that rare, random descent.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that can be looked at to trace matrilineal descent.

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.

I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.

Good wombs have borne bad sons."-- (Miranda, I:2)

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

He'd been let down so oftenHis brow was on the floorBut then they foundA small hole in the groundAnd let him down some more

Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we’re holding on to that which we’re climbing, or we’re letting God hold onto us.