(47 quotes found)
“Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.”
Georg Trakl
“We went through a couple of reservations on tour and we had the opportunity to meet direct descendants of chiefs and other important people in those communities.”
Daniel Bair
“Arab descendants normally discuss the immigration of their relatives to Brazil: where they came from and what they started working as.”
Carlos Tebecherani Haddad
“Then we started descending. My wife said, 'Boy, it looks like it's really raining out there.' One of my nieces said her ears started popping.”
Gabriel Vivas
“I am a fourth-generation descendant of the Sand Creek Massacre. My great-grandmother and great-grandfather were here during the attack, and they survived it. It's a special place for us, and I am happy that legislation to make this an historic site has passed.”
Steve Brady
“I think those that spit have descended from the trees.”
Javier Clemente
“We want to be accurate. We want to know who the descendants of Thomas Jefferson are. And, if Sally Hemings bore us children. That's fine. We want them in.”
Robert Gillespie
“Many of the actors are direct descendants of North Brevard pioneers.”
Joan Harper
“The pilot got the warning in the cockpit. He was climbing and then descended a few hundred feet. He then reported that the Air Force plane passed 500 feet above him.”
Eliot Brenner
“Jefferson's religion has been a question mark for some time, but a descendant of his who did thorough research came to the conclusion that Jefferson was a conservative Unitarian. That's accurate. In church attendance, Jefferson probably led the pack. He liked church going and he liked to listen to speeches, he really was a devout man. When his daughter died his other daughter found him off by himself reading the Bible.”
David Holmes
