Quotes of: Natural-history Keyword

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Lucy Larcom

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Ludwig von Mises

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Maya Angelou

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Malcolm Boyd

I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.

Mary J. Blige

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

Marla Gibbs

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Molly Ivins

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

Ma Jian

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

Mackenzie King

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Mike Mills

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

Marco Rubio

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Martin Scorsese

Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.

Mike White

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Noam Chomsky

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

Pierre de Coubertin

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Penelope Lively

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

Paul Ricoeur

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

Pete Sessions

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Rita Dove

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

Renee Fleming

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Ron Fournier