#descent

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent. ↗

— Aida Turturro

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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent. ↗

— Rita Ora

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Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity. ↗

— Francis Parkman

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I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

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No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

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