#descend

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#ball #burden #descendants #direct #drop

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty. ↗

— Paul Harris

#concerned #cradle #deed #descendants #england

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. ↗

— Annie Besant

#austere #beneficent #celestial #class #crowds

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful. ↗

— Kathleen Raine

#claim #descend #evil #explore #felt

Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too! Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that? Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal in life! Yuki: It's so unfair that I keep having to take abuse just because you can't meet your goals. Kyo: THAT CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE OF YOURS REALLY PISSES ME OFF! Yuki: And that revolting thought process of yours pisses me off. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#condescending #fight #humor #attitude

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#descended #down #during #encampment #ground

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to. ↗

— Matt Groening

#being #condescended #every #everybody #get

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#among #descendants #good #his #home

We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race. ↗

— Hal Boyle

#descends #human #human race #man #much

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. ↗

— David R. Brower

#garbage #generations #i #i think #immediate