From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld.… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
We like to think the best of ourselves. We like to believe we always say and do the right things. We like… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl… — William Safire Copy Share Image
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but… — Barney Ross Copy Share Image
I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day,… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
“What dreams lie dormant hidden in the womb of your soul, quietly waiting, incubating seeking opportunity to come forth? Like the female… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
I went to a public school in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and it's a very rural community. I was an artist kid, and… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
'Pearl Harbor' is definitely about December 7, 1941, but it is not of December 7, 1941. It's not even really of our… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“Meli ya kwanza kuondoka katika Bandari ya Salina Cruz kusini mwa Meksiko katika Bahari ya Pasifiki ni 'La Diosa de los Mares',… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills. — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
