Quotes of: The-history-of Keyword

There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

A History of Genetics

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters.

HerStory: Fiction Honoring Women's History Month

Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

The History Man

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences

Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Grief dares us to love once more.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

The Painted Drum

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

John Henrik Clarke

Sentir en las piernas las vibraciones de su voz, es percibir la realidad en toda su extensión

The History of Love

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

The History of Love

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

Julie Andrews

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

Andre Holland

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

Annie Besant

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley

President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere pragmatist.

Ben Shapiro