From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson 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
Ram, ass, and horse, my Kyrnos, we look over With care, and seek good stock for good to cover; And yet the… — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and… — Virgil Copy Share Image
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill… — Dean Keith Simonton Copy Share Image
When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Amid the gray, an incongruous band of daytime blue asserts itself. To the west, a pink sun already begins its descent. The… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable… — E.S. Russell Copy Share Image
We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
