East Asian Descent

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

    “Though all the East did quake to hear
    Of Alexander’s dreadful name,
    And all the West likewise did fear
    To hear of Julius Caesar’s fame,”
    —Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)

    “We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

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