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)

    “And every stone shall cry,
    In praises of the child
    By whose descent among us
    The worlds are reconciled.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)