Descent

Famous quotes containing the word descent:

“In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)

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

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