Descending Quotes

Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

— Fanny Crosby

“Solan is descending in the sky...”

— Ian Livingstone

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

— Charles Wesley

“Not descending to sea level after developing high altitude sickness is a mistake that may come to haunt you a decade later.”

— Steven Magee

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

— Samael Aun Weor

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

— Miranda Raison

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

— Richard Paul Evans

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

— Jim Morrison

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

— Joel Silver

I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.

— Jimmy Page

“You realize the speed at which you are going to move while ascending. You can reckon the speed at which you were…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings…

— Alexander Hamilton

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to…

— Aldo Leopold

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income…

— Tim Ferriss

The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the…

— Thomas Jefferson

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I…

— Michelle Williams

The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized. the boy watched them disappear under the hanging white thatch of hair. There,…

— Jonathan Stroud

Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been…

— Robert Hooke

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or…

— Mitch Albom

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while…

— Salman Rushdie

But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A "portal" is an opening (door, window, or opening). A heavenly portal or a glory portal is a heavenly opening through which…

— Patricia King

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed…

— Victor Hugo

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow…

— James Freeman Clarke

To the garden of the world anew descending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and…

— Walt Whitman

Each of these "houses of hope" had their own unique "ingredients" based on their inheritance, but I also saw some common ingredients…

— Bob Hartley

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Only a fulfilled heart can pray, because only a fulfilled heart can be grateful and can feel the grace descending.

— Rajneesh

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

— Vasily Rozanov

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

— John Updike

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

— Joseph Joubert

Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

— Winston Churchill

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

— Logan Marshall-Green

Most of the movies about the future show aliens descending from outer space determined to blow up the world, and somehow they…

— Hillary Clinton