Descent

Famous quotes containing the word descent:

“Genealogy. An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“And every stone shall cry,
In praises of the child
By whose descent among us
The worlds are reconciled.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“My life has been one long descent into respectability.”
—Mandy Rice-Davies (b. 1944)