#descend

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#ascend #church #descend #devils #doors

Oh no, I am descended from the important Carters. ↗

— Henry Carter Stuart

#descended #i #i am #important #oh

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty. ↗

— Paul Harris

#concerned #cradle #deed #descendants #england

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. ↗

— Scott Adams

#condescending #done #find #how #show

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#descended #down #during #encampment #ground

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ↗

— Greg Egan

#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists

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

#believe #cottage #descended #inferior #man

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #america #american #american writer #ancestry

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations. ↗

— Michael Johnson

#became #being #believed #descended #determination

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#descendant #dreamers #every #single #us