Quotes of: Natural-history Keyword

In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in the natural order of life. This focus obscures who and what is to blame for the famine, politically and economically, and can lead...

Hunger: An Unnatural History

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, ...

Nature and Selected Essays

There is one thing only which a Muslim can profitably learn from the west, the exact sciences in their pure and applied form. Only natural sciences and mathematics should be taught in Muslim schools, while tuition of European philosophy, literature a...

Muhammad Asad

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about na...

David Attenborough

There has been evidence throughout history of cycles when the earth gets warmer and cycles when the earth gets colder. We should always be wise stewards of the earth and all of our natural resources. But as a policymaker, I won't be guided by the glo...

Raul Labrador

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Barry Schuler

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.

Gustav Stresemann

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

Jodie Foster

I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

Maurice Hinchey

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

Park Geun-hye

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

Rand Paul

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Steven Levy

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

Lawrence Summers

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

Ira Glass

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Bob Dylan

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

I don't even know what my natural colour is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables.

Donatella Versace

History is just one fucking thing after another.

The History Boys