Top 232 Descendants Quotes & Sayings

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

I do think that some form of reparations for the descendants of American slavery would go a long way.

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

Nobody would deny that if someone was a billionaire in 1962, his billions are going to affect all of his descendants. The reverse is also true. The lack of education, material, and finances for a slave are going to affect the descendants of that individual as well.

I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.

Jesus did not become the 'GodKlingon' or the 'GodMartian'! Only descendants of Adam can be saved. God's Son remains the 'Godman' as our Savior.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.

The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book.

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

Nothing has changed that much, even during filmmaking for 'The Descendants.' I wrote. I took the kids to school. I cleaned the house. And I had dinner with George Clooney.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.

If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

I identify as African American. I identify as Black. Black is something I share with other descendants of Africa, African-American is something I share with other Black descendants of America and both of those identities are of equal importance to me.

I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and Yorktown. For this reason I predict the civil war which is now at hand will be stubborn and of long duration.

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

'The Descendants' somehow made death and adultery funny at times.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that.

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation.

The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of his own descendants; and the poor man who concurs in a provision for those who are not poor that at no distant day it may be enjoyed by descendants from himself. It does not require a long life to witness these vicissitudes of fortune.

The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief. Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism.

I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud that I am a countryman of yours, you the descendants of the sages, you the descendants of the most glorious Rishis the world ever saw. Therefore have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.

If we dig deep in our history and remember that we are not descendants from fearful people, we proclaim ourselves indeed as we are the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist in the world.

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.