“As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.”
Edward Forbes
“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits”
Charles Darwin
“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
“So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of incandescent terror.”
T.S. Eliot
“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
“Ah make the most of what yet we may spend,Before we too into dust descend”
Omar Khayyam
