#descent

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#brag #descent #others #owe #their

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. ↗

— Susan Lucci

#both #descent #different #different backgrounds #extremely

The descent to Hades is the same from every place. ↗

— Anaxagoras

#every #place #same

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#descent #even #great #hierarchy #publicity

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#descent #filipino #hawaii #i #raised

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent. ↗

— Aida Turturro

#both #both sides #descent #family #i

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#am #born #descent #england #i

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#continent #country #descent #estimated #europe

He lay, often, looking at her sleeping face in the new light that fell in through the open walls of the strange house, and he stared at her skin and hair with his mouth open, transfixed by the quick stillness of her, struck dumb with the physical fact of her existence as though she was some careless star-thing that slept on quite unaware of its incandescent power; the casualness and ease with which she slept there amazed him; he couldn't believe that such beauty could survive without some superhumanly intense conscious effort. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#incandescent-power #love #shias-engin #star-thing #beauty