Definition of Descended

Descended Quotations

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Charles Darwin

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
R. D. Laing

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.
Meriwether Lewis

We were descended from royalty.
Natalie Wood