Quotes of: Natural-history Keyword

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Vint Cerf

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

Vir Das

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Vivienne Westwood

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

W. H. Auden

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

William Banting

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Wilson Greatbatch

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

Willard Scott

Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation.

Troy Dumais

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Erica Jong

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

Cate Blanchett

Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.

Christian Scott

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

Eli Broad

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Henry James

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

Julie Burchill

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

Marianne Vos

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.

Ori Gersht

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Richard M. Nixon

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Woodrow Wilson

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Ken Burns

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy