My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent. — Florian Znaniecki 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
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way. — Mike Greenberg Copy Share Image
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.” — Alexandre Dumas 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
Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at… — J.R. Ward 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
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances,… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly… — Timothy Garton Ash 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
Weirdly, some of the middle stuff of the descent into something going wrong were the hardest, tonally. You don't want to jump… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60… — Raquel Welch 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
All sorts of other lies are being spread today, I do not know what else they will invent. I've heard that I'm… — Franjo Tudjman 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
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
“Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the splits and confusions of… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of God (Luke 6:20). I'm learning what it means to descend, which is… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed. — Horace Copy Share Image
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. — Horace Copy Share Image
“THE DESCENT SEEMED faster than the ascent: standard in travel as well as in life.” — Faye Kellerman Copy Share Image
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.” — Amit Kalantri 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
I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
