A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society)… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend... — John Milton Copy Share Image
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Natto, Japanese ferment bean paste, will never cross my lips again. Spam Musubi, on the other hand, is something I love. I… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the… — George Will Copy Share Image
Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those… — Jerome A. Cohen Copy Share Image
It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
The vast majority of a significant portion of Americans of Hispanic descent will vote - happen to be working class people who… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're… — Jesse Plemons Copy Share Image
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
