#descend

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#bear #before #below #century #cheerfully

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#blessing #descend #earned #enjoyed #liberty

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#australians #condescended #delved #english #fact

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#future #man #must #parent #past

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#built #came #descendants #havana #here

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#descended #freud #head #hero #him

If our future generations were much wilier than us, then it might be them who have led us all this time, to make decisions which fit to their pre-existence, left us live in the world of uncertainty or by faith. ↗

— Toba Beta

#faith #future #uncertainty #faith

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. ↗

— Travis Barker

#descendants #good #really #stevenson #too

We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened. ↗

— Travis Barker

#does #fast #happened #hard #just

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#began #below #coming #concerned #decision