Descendant Quotes

31 quotes by 31 authors

I have lived in the redness of the stones that mark a path through my blood; I am the descendant of a forgotten race, but… — Mohammed Khair-Eddine
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. — Herbert Spencer
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have… — Mark Twain
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child,… — Ruth Bernhard
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell
Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the… — Lewis Gordon
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals? — Ogden Nash
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three… — Afua Cooper
Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a… — Eve Curie
Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country? — Muhammad Ali
All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at #â€Ž camp — Seth Godin
The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon. — Ziggy Marley
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans,… — Richard Leakey
I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that… — Jim Thorpe
John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy. — Howard Dean
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy. — Yoko Ono
Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers. — Marco Rubio
Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization. — Serj Tankian
Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much… — George C. Williams

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