Descendant Quotes - page 2

Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization. (Serj Tankian)
Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.
Hendrik Poinar
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
Yoko Ono
You are the descendant of a tiny cell of primordial protoplasm washed up on an empty beach three and a half billion years ago. You are the blind and arbitrary product of time, chance, and natural forces. You are a mere grab-bag of atomic particles, a conglomeration of genetic substance. You exist on a tiny planet in a minute solar system in an empty corner of a universe. You are a purely biological entity, different only in degree but not in kind from a microbe, virus, or amoeba. You have no essence beyond your body, and at death you will cease to exist entirely. In short you come from nothing and are going to nowhere.
Randy Alcorn
Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.
Marco Rubio
If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.
Ntozake Shange
Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.
Lewis Pugh
I used to have boundaries up all the time, which is limiting. I never want to feel limited. If anything is life changing, being the descendant of a slave is. I went into therapy 10 years ago because I needed to work that out. I've gotten better. Everything about me is more fluid, much less rigid. I'm gonna do everything I can, feel everything I can, until it hurts. Then I'll stop. All they did was buy us–it's not an honor, it's just something that happened. Our gifts belong to us.
Ntozake Shange