#descent

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#descent #even #great #hierarchy #publicity

My life has been one long descent into respectability. ↗

— Mandy Rice-Davies

#descent #into #life #long #my life

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. ↗

— Virgil

#air #descent #easy #enough #infernal

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

— Rita Ora

#i #latin #mistaken #often #spanish

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

— Marco Rubio

#children #descent #desperately #give #had

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. ↗

— Susan Lucci

#both #descent #different #different backgrounds #extremely

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#april #began #board #boat #departure

The descent to Hades is the same from every place. ↗

— Anaxagoras

#every #place #same

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#descent #eye #individual #into #ironically

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#also #biologists #build #classify #common