Descended Quotes

141 quotes by 126 authors

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself. — Juvenal
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It… — Evelyn Underhill
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals… — Winston Churchill
On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light. — Edward Conlon
She's descended from a long line her mother listened to. — Gypsy Rose Lee
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation… — Epicurus
It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from… — Lenny Bruce
When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told… — Yuri Gagarin
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended… — William Jennings Bryan
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long… — Zachary Taylor
Our shipment of mowers was lost at sea and while we waited, winter descended and covered our green lawns with snow. That taught me a… — Terry Matthews
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. — Charles Darwin
I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is not… — Vaslav Nijinsky
We, the Jews, not only have degenerated and are located at the end of the path, we spoiled the blood of all the peoples of… — Theodor Herzl
If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better… — Andrew Solomon
Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are… — Rudolf Steiner
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part… — Enoch Powell
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that… — Edward R. Murrow

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