Descendants Quotes

Your descendants shall gatheryour fruits.

— Virgil

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

— Travis Barker

“The descendants of Joktan dwelt from Mesha to Sephar.”

— James John Courtenay

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

— Winona LaDuke

“We are the direct descendants of millions of freaks.”

— Ronnie de Sousa

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

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

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

— Plato

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

— Virgil

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

— Katharine Anthony

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

— PZ Myers

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

— Diane von Furstenberg

I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've…

— Sam Walton

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

— Ezola B. Foster

“One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.”

— Olin Miller

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…

— Ken Ham

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood;…

— Al Pacino

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand…

— Eric Liu

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United…

— Paul Harris

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all…

— Marco Rubio

There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act…

— Juvenal

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject.…

— Seneca the Younger

There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis,…

— Alex Shoumatoff

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are…

— Adolf Hitler

“If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some…

— Rudyard Kipling

Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in…

— Paul Kingsnorth

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story…

— Afua Cooper

We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles…

— Walter Weyl

Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too…

— John Holdren

Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions…

— St. George Tucker

The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for…

— Michio Kaku

“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'…

— Jürgen Habermas

“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to…

— Criss Jami

Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.

— Thomas Paine

Changing yourself is changing your descendants.

— Stevens Chen

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Michael Johnson

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

— Mike Huckabee