Quotes About Descent

Holy Science: 'A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson which humility can teach.' - Samuel Johnson

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

The roots of Nixon's political descent lay at least as far back as May 1970, when the shooting of four young Americans at Kent State University began to turn the president's moderate supporters against him.

Above their heads by three feet was an opening in the roof. 'A chimney,' said Jimmy. 'You climb up by putting your back to one side and feet to the other.' 'What if it widens too much?' asked Laurie. 'Then it's usual to come back down. The rate of descent is up to you. I suggest you do it slowly.

Warm fog swirled in the canyon as we gradually descended. A hundred feet in front of us everything was lost in the fog and a hundred feet behind us everything was lost in the fog. We were walking in a capsule between amnesias.

Replicators need not last forever. They need only last long enough to produce additional replicators [fecundity] that retain their structure largely intact [fidelity]. The relevant longevity concerns the retention of structure through descent. Some entities, though structurally similar, are not copies because they are not related by descent.

ego —! There's nothing more powerful when it comes to destroying a man, my friend. Nothing else that would assure his swift and inglorious descent into Pathalam, the goriest underworld!

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Hellingafwaards. Je wil wel, maar moet lopen alsof je niet wil.

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

When darkness comes over your soul, it doesn't come in light shades; it descends with all the black of a moonless night.

When darkness comes over your soul, it doesn't come in light shades; it descends with all the black of a moonless night.

When darkness comes over your soul, it doesn't come in light shades; it descends with all the black of a moonless night. In the faces of the women around that cook fire, what I saw was the vacant look of abandonment, and I knew it was all my fault.

God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

But mostly we are made of a heavier stuff, the slow descent of breast, foot-arches flattening towards earth, the hundred ways the body longs for home.