I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Agnes! Do you hear me? I was wrong. The world isn't ending. There are things that matter. We matter.” — Julia Gfrörer Copy Share Image
All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“It was the greatest tidal wave of death since the Black Death, perhaps in the whole of human history.” — Laura Spinney Copy Share Image
“Oh, such a shame, such a shame. Oh, such a shame. What’s it all about anyhow?” “I’ve wondered for a long time.”… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars,… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY I came up to in 1917 was a shadow of her normal, self-assured self, its population a tenth of… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so...ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“In October 1347, several trading ships from Genoa, Italy, pulled into the harbor at Messina in Sicily. Everyone aboard those ships was… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918–1919, some 50 million people were killed by something far too small to even see, let alone hunt… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Even though we know the origin of diseases, panic sweeps. It's one thing that frightens us, because it's your health and your… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
I have six brothers, and in the past I've done quite a few girlie films, like 'Wild Child' and 'Angus, Thongs and… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
“When the Black Death spread across Europe, from 1347 to 1350, physicians didn’t really have anything to make people feel better besides… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“Krause and his team unearthed the evolution of Yersinia pestis, and the genomic tracks of its terrible journey. An earlier study had… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“I would ask the reader to pause for a moment and ponder the statistics. Statistics are mere numbers; they need to be… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Even more than black death he dreaded the gaudy gate: the mask of sweet red rubber, the violet overhead lights, the rattling… — Adam Begley Copy Share Image
“I was also one of those people who hadn’t caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“The Black Death is a vivid example of a critical juncture, a major event or confluence of factors disrupting the existing economic… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“[According to 1348 theorists, poisoning of Christian water by Jews was the cause of Black Death.] Even the poison used to contaminate… — John Kelly Copy Share Image
“After the Black Death in the mid-1300s, the persecution of Jews intensified, and many Jews in Europe moved farther east. Some left… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Accounts from Europe indicate that the danse macabre took another form, inspired by the Black Death, rather like our children's rhyme 'Ring… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
“Peasant families were close-knit. However, as the Black Death swept through village after village, it became difficult for young peasants to find… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“[Aunt Dahlia to Bertie Wooster] 'To look at you, one would think you were just an ordinary sort of amiable idiot--certifiable, perhaps,… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The synergies between extractive economic and political institutions create a vicious circle, where extractive institutions, once in place, tend to persist. Similarly,… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Every year, Kansas watches the world die. Civilizations of wheat grow tall and green; they grow old and golden, and then men… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Between 1980 and 2008, blacks made up 52.5% of homicide offenders, despite making up just 12.2% of the population. In the same… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn't count on a thing, and… — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Copy Share Image
“The Black Death was a faithful visitor to Florence. It arrived, on average, once every ten years, always in the summer.” — Ross King Copy Share Image
There is a list of things I'm not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My problem is white comfort with Black death. I am personally tired of white comfort with black death. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image