Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.
Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.
If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.
The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.