Descent Quotes (page 3)

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• discrimination
• free
• people

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 anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. Henry Louis Gates

• focus
• design
• space

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 disappeared. Arthur Erickson

• enough
• enough is enough
• region

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. Virgil

• humanity
• oneness
• scales

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity. Francis Parkman

• family
• new york
• new

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent. Aida Turturro

• my mother
• mother
• different

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. Susan Lucci

• red
• rude
• rudeness

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps. Charlotte Smith

• spanish
• chinese
• raise

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. Tia Carrere

• those
• bragging
• others

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• work
• ignorance
• history

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 work of biologists studying non-human species. J. Philippe Rushton

• children
• saying
• chance

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had. Marco Rubio

• caring
• accounting
• manly

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. Ambrose Bierce

• life
• respect
• respective

My life has been one long descent into respectability. Mandy Rice-Davies

• new
• born
• am

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. Simon Newcomb

• men
• thursday
• party

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river. William Henry Ashley