#descendant

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace. ↗

— King Hussein I

#birthplace #children #continue #dawn #descendants

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#descendants #products #racial

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. ↗

— David R. Brower

#garbage #generations #i #i think #immediate

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?' ↗

— Eric Liu

#ago #america #astride #capitalist #china

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ↗

— Don Marquis

#blood #boast #descendants #family #finish

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals? ↗

— Ogden Nash

#descendant #direct #every #line #long

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#descendants #easily #either #fiction #iliad

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#american people #descendants #love #love me #me

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