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Tag Name "Descended" (83)

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I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
Kurt Vonnegut
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To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, My nobility, said he, begins in me, but yours ends in you.
Plutarch
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We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
Edward R. Murrow
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
Naomi Benaron
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Of nothing comes nothing: springs rise not above Their source in the far-hidden heart of the mountains: Whence then have descended the Wisdom and Love That in man leap to light in intelligent fountains?
John Townsend Trowbridge
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
William Jennings Bryan
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My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.
Philip K. Dick
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An iron curtain has descended over Europe.
Winston Churchill
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The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
Lytton Strachey
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We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.
Kin Hubbard
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Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.
Guus Kuijer
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A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.
James Atlas
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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
Mark Twain
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
Amy Goodman
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When you look at the science and the genetic studies that have been done on Palestinians and Jews, you find that there is a unity. They're both descended from the Canaanites. They're essentially the same people.
Lawrence Wright
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The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.
George Orwell
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The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.
Stephen R. Lawhead
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The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.
Kate Chopin
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Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.
Sam Francis
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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