Best Descendants Quotations
143 Descendants quotes by 129 unique authors
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The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book.
— Rick Remender
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I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's…
— Criss Jami
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Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually…
— Clarence Darrow
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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
— Augustus Hare
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'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to…
— Mark Helprin
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For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in…
— King Hussein I
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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who…
— Michio Kaku
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Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world…
— Eric Liu
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I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood…
— Don Marquis
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And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the…
— Marco Rubio
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead…
— Thomas Sowell
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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is…
— Alice Walker
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction…
— E. O. Wilson
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Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our…
— Henry B. Eyring
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Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that…
— Neal Stephenson
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Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven…
— Arthur W. Pink
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I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely…
— Haruki Murakami
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For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all…
— Thomas Paine
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I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot…
— Kage Baker
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Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded…
— Sam Harris
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When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms…
— Jostein Gaarder
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