Descendants Quotes

143 quotes by 132 authors

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. — Travis Barker
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for,… — George Washington
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding… — Bob Dole
A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a public meeting the… — Truman G. Madsen
Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings,… — Edward Alsworth Ross
If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it. — Mike Huckabee
It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of… — Grover Cleveland
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a… — Samuel Eliot Morison
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted — Herman Bavinck
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and… — Ronald Reagan
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the… — Saint Augustine
As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow. — Nikos Kazantzakis
So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants. — Tacitus
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if… — Patrick Henry
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of… — James Madison
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward… — John Templeton
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer… — Amelia B. Edwards

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