[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
“It seemed strange, the Muslim Maghrib prayer aboard a Viking ship full of atheists and pagans. Then again, Samirah's ancestors had been… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected,… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Sometime during my study of the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, I uncovered an odd paradox that exists in our minds about… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“The earliest medieval logical curriculum, studied from the time of Alcuin’s On Dialectic (late 780s?) until the late tenth century, was based… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“European who served for many years as a diplomat in Pyongyang, with postings there off and on from the 1970s into the… — Bradley K. Martin Copy Share Image
“Being an author of a book is like being a mother of a debutante in the Middle Ages. You have to present… — Elvira Baryakina Copy Share Image
Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
“Since the Middle Ages, pieces of toasted bread have been added to beer and wine to improve the beverages’ flavor. It is… — Francine Segan Copy Share Image
For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It's funny to see my friends going through that middle-age thing about losing their hair. I went through it in college. They… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Throughout the Middle Ages, art and architecture had a spiritual mission: to direct man’s attention toward God. Churches soared in that direction,… — Jesse Bryant Wilder Copy Share Image
“There’s a story, in the Bible—” “Not in the Bible,” he interrupted. “Apocryphal. Scholars seem to think it was added in the… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar.… — Joaquin Rodrigo Copy Share Image
“I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Churches have to stop ringing the damn bells. It was a good idea in the Middle Ages, but people have… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“It was thought in the Middle Ages that people simply make many observations, and the observations themselves suggest the laws. But it… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
I would always prefer radio or working behind the scenes where I don't have to be seen. I don't like how appearance… — Susan Olsen Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing… — Jean Leclercq Copy Share Image
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“It was then that Boniface issued the most scandalous papal bull of the Middle Ages – the Unam Sanctam of 1302: “We… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“The ruling groups were always infected to some extent by liberal ideas, and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image