Descendant Quotes

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

You can properly call him a son of anything you please.

The only part of evolution in which any considerable interest is felt is evolution applied to man. A hypothesis in regard to the rocks and plant life does not affect the philosophy upon which one's life is built. Evolution applied to fish, birds and beasts would not materially affect man's view of his own responsibilities except as the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis as to these would be used to support a similar hypothesis as to man. The evolution that is harmful—distinctly so—is the evolution that destroys man's family tree as taught by the Bible and makes him a descendant of the lower forms of life. This ... is a very vital matter.

I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

It makes no difference to me whether I shoot you or you fall to your death.” “It does make a difference,” I said, my voice small but confident. “You and I share the same blood.” I lifted my hand precariously, showing him my birthmark. “I’m your descendant. If I sacrifice my blood, Patch will become human and you’ll die. It’s written in The Book of Enoch.

I'm more interested in...I'm more of a descendent. I'm more critical. It comes from a different place and nowadays the young people know how to make just light entertainment.

I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.

Oh no, I am descended from the important Carters.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.

I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.

After some time, there will be another Pankaj Tripathi.

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.

Helen Hayes was my great-aunt.

I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.