Famous quotes containing the word descent:
“And every stone shall cry,
In praises of the child
By whose descent among us
The worlds are reconciled.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
—Ambrose Bierce (18421914)
“My life has been one long descent into respectability.”
—Mandy Rice-Davies (b. 1944)
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