Descent Quotes

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

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

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

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

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

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.