Top Descent Quotes

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

Good wombs have borne bad sons.-- (Miranda, I:2)

Descent Definition

(n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

(n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.

(n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.

(n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.

(n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.

(n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

(n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.

(n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

(n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.

(n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returnin...

Then he went on to bore me with a lot of details about jet engines, the venturi effect, increasing lift by increasing camber with the flaps, and how after all four engines flame out the plane will tur...

He'd been let down so oftenHis brow was on the floorBut then they foundA small hole in the groundAnd let him down some more