Quotes of: Natural-history Keyword

Whether they come from Brooks Brothers or a thrift store, the sweaters we wear have a magnificent ancestry. Their history spans the worlds of Irish fishermen, French knights, World War I soldiers, busty Hollywood 'sweater girls,' and the television s...

Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet

You make no sense! You went somewhere to discover your place in history? How can that be? History is what is done and behind us.”     He shook his head, slowly this time. “History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.” He...

Royal Assassin

Pete Dunham: So what were you studyin' before this geezer stitched ya up? Matt Buckner: [Hesitates] ... History Pete Dunham: History? I teach history! Matt Buckner: [surprised] You teach? Pete Dunham: Yes... cheeky slag! History and P.E. What you thi...

Green Street Hooligans

Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.

How Nature Cures Comprising a New System of Hygiene; Also the Natural Food of Man

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of eve...

Johan Huizinga

For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,...

Victor Hugo

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

However, Hardy's relationship with nature is a dialectical one. While he indicates that he recognizes how human perception shapes nature, he nevertheless accepts nature as possessed of its own agency, as working through its cycle regardless of human ...

The Decline of the Goddess: Nature, Culture, and Women in Thomas Hardy's Fiction

Our instincts weren't built to handle the kind of power our species wields over the planet, nature has been playing rough with us for so long, maybe it is no surprise we are being so rough with her now.

Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.

The Cavalier's Cup

He gave me a small smile, and in that smile I saw our whole catastrophic history playing out before my eyes.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

Faith in Jesus is the most important event in the history of a child’s life.

A Mom After God's Own Heart

History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking.

The Least Envied

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939

Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history.

The Unnatural History of the Sea

Through a history book, I can time travel. Especially a history book from the future.


Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

Julius Lester

I don't have a problem with these Arizona laws. I have a problem with Chicano, Gay and Lesbian, Asian-American and African-American histories not being taught in American History courses.

M.G. Hardie

If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you,’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

Mehmet Murat ildan