Descent Quotes

156 quotes by 141 authors

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent. — Rita Ora
I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent. — Aida Turturro
If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space.… — Frank J. Tipler
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. — Danai Gurira
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains… — Galileo Galilei
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that… — Max Roach
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the… — J. Philippe Rushton
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. — Horace
It?s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day . — Garrison Keillor
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. — Terry Tempest Williams
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural… — Ernst Mayr
Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the… — John G. Lake
The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinism, — Errol White
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be… — Henry Louis Gates
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space… — Arthur Erickson
When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America… — Malcolm X
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. — Joni Mitchell
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had. — Marco Rubio
If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. — Albert Camus

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