We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent. — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way. — Mike Greenberg Copy Share Image
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed. — Horace Copy Share Image
The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men… — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family -… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances,… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
“I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7… — Rick Rollens Copy Share Image
If you look at the economy, the U.S. economy, in terms of per-capita terms, in terms of other considerations, has been on… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“At the outset God-the-Preceptor ushers in the body in the process of Descent (Nigam) and stops in the fourth sheath as causal… — Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond Copy Share Image
There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco,… — Edwin Black Copy Share Image
All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent. — Aida Turturro Copy Share Image
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. — Tia Carrere Copy Share Image
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer,… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
