Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent. — Florian Znaniecki Copy Share Image
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed. — Horace Copy Share Image
We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent. — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. — Tia Carrere Copy Share Image
The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have… — Milton R. Hunter Copy Share Image
There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty;… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have just begun our gradual descent into the Indianapolis area, a descent similar in many ways to the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I do an Asian character or an Asian voice I'm doing one because that's my heritage and my family and where… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false. The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of… — Matthew Coon Come Copy Share Image
From the descent of the Holy Spirit at the beginning we may learn something concerning His operations at the present time. Remember… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“The remaining chain swung down, he wrenched the door out and he was free. The last thing he heard behind him was… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view… — Virgil Copy Share Image
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. — Susan Lucci Copy Share Image
Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs… — Charlotte Smith Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form? — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
