It?s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day . — Garrison Keillor 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
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
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
The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession… — Woody Harrelson 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
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It… — Sri Aurobindo 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
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on… — Al Alvarez 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
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
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 feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even… — Anonymous 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
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
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
In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery — Marvin Harris 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
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
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
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
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image