I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
His descent was like nightfall.
I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization and migration; this belief must be important for group formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7 months old after receiving numerous vaccinations in a single day; the same story that is told by thousands of other parents of children throughout the country whose healthy, normally developing children have become autistic after vaccinations.
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
