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
“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
“Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on… — R.E. Vance 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
I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
“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
“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
There's no way you can do any homework on Black Lives Matters, and not see that it's a Marxist political organization. It's… — Jason Whitlock 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
“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
“(And FYI: the Black Death was not my fault. I took one century off to lie around the beach in Cabo and… — Rick Riordan 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
“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
“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
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
“ “The Black Death announces itself by the appearance of foul, egg-sized swellings that erupt on the bodies of its victims, followed… — Fiona Paul 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
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
“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
“And at midnight there came an apparition in hell. A handsome dark-eyed man with a dagger-like beard, in a tailcoat, stepped onto… — Mikhail Bulgakov 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
“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
“Flu pandemics are nothing new. Medical historians think the first one struck in 1510, infecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the New World.… — Albert Marrin 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
“The magnitude of these shattering changes can perhaps be grasped by imagining that the invasion had been in the reverse direction and… — Geoffrey Blainey 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
“Sixty-two years passed since that battle, I can remember it as if it was yesterday. It made me the king I am… — Muhammad Nusair 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
“[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
“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
Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life. — Aldous Huxley 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
My problem is white comfort with Black death. I am personally tired of white comfort with black death. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image