Descent famous quotes

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
-- Anaxagoras

#Death #Suicide #Descent

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

#Death #Dying #Descent

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

#Giving #Natural #Descent

The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinism,
-- Errol White

#Doubt #Descent #Darwinism

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

#Teacher #Students #Descent

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

#Noble #Wealth #Descent

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

#Long #Descent #Respectability

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.
-- Rita Ora

#Latin #Descent #Mistaken

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.
-- W. S. Gilbert

#Facts #Ancestry #Descent

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
-- William Carlos Williams

#Ascent #Descent

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

#Anticipation #Endless #Descent

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

#Challenges #Descent #Climbs