Descent

Famous quotes containing the word descent:

“When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible—such descent I call beauty.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“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)