Descent

Famous quotes containing the word descent:

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

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

“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)