#descend

I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#after #college #depression #descend #i

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ↗

— Don Marquis

#blood #boast #descendants #family #finish

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. ↗

— Jean Paul

#descends #dew #does #down #evening

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#descendants #easily #either #fiction #iliad

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

#anything #descend #earth #ghastly #hush

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#descend #effects #europeans #feel #into

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#ascend #church #descend #devils #doors

The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#country #descendants #domestic #european #foreign

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to. ↗

— Gypsy Rose Lee

#her #line #listened #long #long line