Famous quotes containing the word descent:
“There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;”
—James Russell Lowell (18191891)
“When power becomes gracious and descends into the visiblesuch descent I call beauty.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
—Ambrose Bierce (18421914)
Related Subjects
Related Phrases
Related Words