“I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun.”
Willy Russell
“There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.”
William Jennings Bryan
“There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.”
William Hazlitt
“The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours”
Sigmund Freud
“The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of incandescent terror.”
T.S. Eliot
“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits”
Charles Darwin
“So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
