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.
Arthur Erickson
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.
William Henry Ashley
Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
Francis Parkman
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.
J. Philippe Rushton
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Ambrose Bierce
I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
Aida Turturro
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.
Marco Rubio
I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
Tia Carrere
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
C. Wright Mills
My life has been one long descent into respectability.
Mandy Rice-Davies
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
Susan Lucci
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.
Timothy Garton Ash
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.
Charlotte Smith
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Anaxagoras
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Virgil
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
Simon Newcomb
We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.
Esai Morales
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