Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home. "

Deborah Moggach

Together

Sheep

History

Related Quotes:

" Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. "

" History is a relay of revolutions. "

" Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it aside. Go for a swim, go for a walk, take a week off. Don't panic or be afraid; you and your characters are in it together. Trust them to come to your rescue. "

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

" The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization. "

" The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive. "

" Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. "

" It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. "

" I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. "

James A. Baldwin

History

Time

" There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.' "

" I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil. "

" We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. "

Barack Obama

" Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity. "

" No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. "

" If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends. "

" Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. "

" Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history. "

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

History

Culture

Because

" One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. "

" Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history. "

Larry Brilliant

History

People

" Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. "

" Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't often been the result of speculative bets. It has been the result of banks making loans to individuals and businesses who can't pay them back. "

" Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three. "

" The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism. "

" Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. "

Edward Kennedy

Going

You

" History should be written as philosophy. "

" To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. "

" The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. "

" I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window. "

" Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I come from. I understand that my last name is Kirby, that I was born in London, third-generation Jamaican, and at some point along the line, that name was changed. I didn't know my history past my grandparents. "

" It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place. "