Descendance Quotes & Sayings

Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love. — David Ebershoff

It's time. It's time. It sounded like her father's voice in the wind. Run, Star Girl. — Mercedes M. Yardley

May you find the beauty in every moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The darkness had not overcome the light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye. — Leigh Hunt

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue. For me every virtuous foreigner is a Greek and every evil Greek worse than a Barbarian. If differences ever develop between you never have recourse to arms, but solve them peacefully. If necessary, I should be your arbitrator. — Alexander The Great

Everything is true-Everything is permissible! — Hassan-i Sabbah

I'm not in the business of talking about what 'isn't.' — Robin Wright

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man. — Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari