#descend

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#hate #place #skulls #vulture

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

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#ape #average #believe #descended #even

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#believe #descended #hard #man

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals? ↗

— Ogden Nash

#descendant #direct #every #line #long

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

— Jean Paul

#descends #dew #does #down #evening

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#american people #descendants #love #love me #me

The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves. ↗

— Edmund Gibson

#blessings #descend #evoke #ourselves #upon

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