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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long 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
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
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.
Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.
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.
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.
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.
Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.
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.
After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.
I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.
With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.
There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.
The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
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.
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.
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.
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.
The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and one of the last relics of bygone shameful times of merciless imperialism, conquest, exploitation is on the cards.
In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
In fact, in the original folk tale, Aladdin was actually of Chinese descent. So what we wanted to do with this was represent as many different cultures from that part of the world as possible.
My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
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.
It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
When I was in school, you never saw anyone who looked like us that was on TV. And that was really weird for me because there's so many people of South Asian descent in America - in the world.
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.
It?s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day .
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.
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.
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.
If liberals no longer pride themselves on being the adults in the room, the bulwark against the whims of the mob, our national descent into chaos will be complete.
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.
As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women.
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.
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.
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've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.
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.
I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.
For my part, if I'm working while flying, I'm often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I'm a slacker.
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.
