East Asian Descent

Famous quotes containing the words east, asian and/or descent:

    “Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee;
    And was the safeguard of the West:”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “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)