Descent Quotes

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

— William Carlos Williams

His descent was like nightfall.

— Homer

I am of an African-Jamaican descent.

— Liz Mitchell

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

— Rita Ora

I want to see women of African descent shine.

— Danai Gurira

“BOOK FIFTH.—THE DESCENT.”

— Victor Hugo

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

— Anaxagoras

“The descent into Hell is easy”

— Virgil

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

— Mandy Rice-Davies

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

— Immanuel Kant

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

— Amit Kalantri

The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent.

— LZ Granderson

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

— Anonymous

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

— Franz Kafka

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

— Gemma Files

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

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

— Charles Darwin

“Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down,…

— Chuck Wendig

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

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the…

— Diogenes Laertius

The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view…

— Virgil

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus…

— Arthur Erickson

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

When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent to rebirth,…

— Max Heindel

Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names…

— Anonymous

If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your…

— Ayn Rand

When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

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

(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of…

— Julian Barnes

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

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace…

— Charles Darwin

Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco,…

— Edwin Black

All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious…

— Edwin Louis Cole

Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the…

— Reinhold Messner

If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth…

— Frank J. Tipler

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

The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through…

— Carl Jung