Descent Quotes
Descent Quote of the day
All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.
The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.
If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.
I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.
Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.
I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
