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A bunch of species all descended from the single ancestor have proliferated so there are many species now. And they’re all doing different things, for the most part, they are exploiting the environment in different ways. There are big beaks and small beaks. There are sharp beaks and dull ones. – Dolph Schluter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The day began simply enough, cigarette in hand, coffee, black and bitter, wadded up newspaper, and after I got out of bed You were there too, and you wanted to debate the meaning of existence, but I couldn’t at that moment Outside, the birds sang to each other, words of wisdom, clouds of the finest smoke, a mob of blue jays descended on the bird feeder, the light still peachy If there are lessons to be Learned and gauntlets run, If you remain holy, The seed will be taken right from your hand. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
As a Republican, I hope Judge Jackson will garner substantial bipartisan support because she deserves to be judged on her personal merits which overwhelmingly weigh in favor of confirmation, too often over the past several decades, Bidens Supreme Court nominations have descended into bitter partisan conflict and White House surrogates lose sight of the most important qualities in a jurist. – William Burck	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Outside, the birds sang to each other, words of wisdom, clouds of the finest smoke, a mob of blue jays descended on the bird feeder, the light still peachy. If there are lessons to be Learned and gauntlets run, If you remain holy, The seed will be taken right from your hand. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
At one point, after being told that he had been identified as having descended the ramp to the Lower V, before the fire started, Mays stated that he was being setup. – Gary Barthel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. – Dwight D. Eisenhower	added by Normando 2 years ago
Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished. We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming President, only to find herself reciting for one. – Amanda Gorman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The White House guidelines come amid a tempestuous week in which protestors across the country descended on state capitals to express their anger over the effects the lockdown measures were having on the economy despite thousands of new cases of COVID-19 being reported every day. SOURCES BELIEVE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK ORIGINATED IN WUHAN LAB, AS PART OF CHINAS EFFORTS TO COMPETE WITH US On Wednesday, hundreds of cars, trucks and SUVs descended on Michigans state capital as part of a noisy protest against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmers social-distancing restrictions that critics saidy have gone too far. Similar protests unfolded in Virginia, Wyoming, Kentucky and Ohio over the last week with more planned in Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York and New Hampshire. The federal government said Thursday that 5.2 million more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the four-week total to about 22 million out of a work force of 159 million easily the worst stretch of U.S. job losses on record. The losses translate to about 1 in 7 workers. Those people that know theyre vulnerable, self-quarantine. And everybody else, let them go back to work. – Aaron Carver	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I saw all the mud coming down the hill, snapping the trees as it descended. It was a tremendous noise, i cannot get that noise out of my head. Its a trauma ... Ill never forget. – Simone Pedrosa	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
If any people are homeless in Australia today, it is the Aboriginals, They are the only non-European descended people to whom we owe any debt. Some day, I hope, we will do justice to them. – Arthur Calwell	added by anonymous 5 years ago
I fished with my father ever since I've been seven or eight, it passes down because it's just a natural thing for us -- my parents did it, I'm quite sure my parents' parents did it, and it just descended down. – Ricky Wright	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Everyone kind of descended on where this hole was. – Passenger Matt Tranchin	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Flight attendants rushed up. There was momentary chaos. Everyone kind of descended on where this hole was. – Passenger Matt Tranchin	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The woman who gave me the wet paper towel as we descended the stairs and which I later used to breathe through; the firefighters who were ascending the stairs as we were descending; the Catholic priest who put his hand on my shoulder and prayed for us as we lay on the street being covered by dust and debris, then there was the bus driver who took us uptown… those people all come to my mind. – Edward Fine	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Understand, climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the world, yet what we also know is that severe drought helped to create the instability in Nigeria that was exploited by the terrorist group Boko Haram, it's now believed that drought, crop failures, and high food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The U.S. Supreme Court's declaration shows the West has become totally disoriented and descended into a Sodom and Gomorrah society, but that's their business - they can't impose it on us. – Medard Bitekyerezo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The levels of humanity that we have seen have now descended into further levels of inhumanity. – Chris Gunness	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. – Franklin D. Roosevelt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce. – Lenny Bruce	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended. – Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. – Edward R. Murrow	added by anonymous 14 years ago
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. – Charles Robert Darwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago

A bunch of species all descended from the single ancestor have proliferated so there are many species now. And they’re all doing different things, for the most part, they are exploiting the environment in different ways. There are big beaks and small beaks. There are sharp beaks and dull ones.

– Dolph Schluter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The day began simply enough, cigarette in hand, coffee, black and bitter, wadded up newspaper, and after I got out of bed You were there too, and you wanted to debate the meaning of existence, but I couldn’t at that moment Outside, the birds sang to each other, words of wisdom, clouds of the finest smoke, a mob of blue jays descended on the bird feeder, the light still peachy If there are lessons to be Learned and gauntlets run, If you remain holy, The seed will be taken right from your hand.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

As a Republican, I hope Judge Jackson will garner substantial bipartisan support because she deserves to be judged on her personal merits which overwhelmingly weigh in favor of confirmation, too often over the past several decades, Bidens Supreme Court nominations have descended into bitter partisan conflict and White House surrogates lose sight of the most important qualities in a jurist.

– William Burck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Outside, the birds sang to each other, words of wisdom, clouds of the finest smoke, a mob of blue jays descended on the bird feeder, the light still peachy. If there are lessons to be Learned and gauntlets run, If you remain holy, The seed will be taken right from your hand.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

At one point, after being told that he had been identified as having descended the ramp to the Lower V, before the fire started, Mays stated that he was being setup.

– Gary Barthel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

added by Normando
2 years ago

Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished. We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming President, only to find herself reciting for one.

– Amanda Gorman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The White House guidelines come amid a tempestuous week in which protestors across the country descended on state capitals to express their anger over the effects the lockdown measures were having on the economy despite thousands of new cases of COVID-19 being reported every day. SOURCES BELIEVE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK ORIGINATED IN WUHAN LAB, AS PART OF CHINAS EFFORTS TO COMPETE WITH US On Wednesday, hundreds of cars, trucks and SUVs descended on Michigans state capital as part of a noisy protest against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmers social-distancing restrictions that critics saidy have gone too far. Similar protests unfolded in Virginia, Wyoming, Kentucky and Ohio over the last week with more planned in Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York and New Hampshire. The federal government said Thursday that 5.2 million more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the four-week total to about 22 million out of a work force of 159 million easily the worst stretch of U.S. job losses on record. The losses translate to about 1 in 7 workers. Those people that know theyre vulnerable, self-quarantine. And everybody else, let them go back to work.

– Aaron Carver

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I saw all the mud coming down the hill, snapping the trees as it descended. It was a tremendous noise, i cannot get that noise out of my head. Its a trauma ... Ill never forget.

– Simone Pedrosa

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If any people are homeless in Australia today, it is the Aboriginals, They are the only non-European descended people to whom we owe any debt. Some day, I hope, we will do justice to them.

– Arthur Calwell

added by anonymous
5 years ago

I fished with my father ever since I've been seven or eight, it passes down because it's just a natural thing for us -- my parents did it, I'm quite sure my parents' parents did it, and it just descended down.

– Ricky Wright

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Everyone kind of descended on where this hole was.

– Passenger Matt Tranchin

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Flight attendants rushed up. There was momentary chaos. Everyone kind of descended on where this hole was.

– Passenger Matt Tranchin

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The woman who gave me the wet paper towel as we descended the stairs and which I later used to breathe through; the firefighters who were ascending the stairs as we were descending; the Catholic priest who put his hand on my shoulder and prayed for us as we lay on the street being covered by dust and debris, then there was the bus driver who took us uptown… those people all come to my mind.

– Edward Fine

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Understand, climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the world, yet what we also know is that severe drought helped to create the instability in Nigeria that was exploited by the terrorist group Boko Haram, it's now believed that drought, crop failures, and high food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The U.S. Supreme Court's declaration shows the West has become totally disoriented and descended into a Sodom and Gomorrah society, but that's their business - they can't impose it on us.

– Medard Bitekyerezo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The levels of humanity that we have seen have now descended into further levels of inhumanity.

– Chris Gunness

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.

– Lenny Bruce

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

– Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

– Plutarch

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.

– Edward R. Murrow

added by anonymous
14 years ago

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

– Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

– Charles Robert Darwin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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