23 Quotations with Descent.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particula ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among per ...
- 4. Anaxagoras: The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
- 5. Virgil: The gates of hell are open night and day;
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- 6. Brenda Ueland: Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talk ...
- 7. Steve Jones: Darwin's theory of common descent does for biology what Galileo did for the plan ...
- 8. William James: A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of anim ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly ...
- 10. Marcus Annaeus Seneca: He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
- 11. W. S. Gilbert: I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adam ...
- 12. Henry Codman Potter: If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it ...
- 13. Nicholas Boileau: If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires ...
- 14. John Updike: In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being ...
- 15. Wright C. Mills: In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hiera ...
- 16. E. L. Doctorow: Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is sup ...
- 17. Mandy Rice-Davies: My life has been one long descent into respectability.
- 18. Mandy Rice-Davies: My life has been one long descent into respectability.
- 19. Charles Baudelaire: There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the ot ...
- 20. Charles Krauthammer: There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with tha ...
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