I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent.
Weirdly, some of the middle stuff of the descent into something going wrong were the hardest, tonally. You don't want to jump the gun and be instantly paranoid about the fact that she has made coffee wrong because that would be weird. It's the slow build and letting it sink in. If they say everything is okay, you believe your partner. You don't want to rattle the boat too much on your honeymoon.
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.
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.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
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.
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.
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself. . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one. . . the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.