Descent Quotes

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

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.

His descent was like nightfall.

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

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

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

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.