(47 quotes found)
“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
“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
“I cannot say that I am descended from the bastards of Oliver Cromwell, or his courtiers, or from the Puritans who punish their horses for breaking the Sabbath, or from those who persecuted Quakers and burned the witches”
Matthew Lyon
“Ah make the most of what yet we may spend,Before we too into dust descend”
Omar Khayyam
“We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation”
Lester B. Pearson
“Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.”
Amy Lowell
“Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
