Fifteenth Quotes

36 quotes by 30 authors

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came… — Dave Barry
I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is… — Trey Anastasio
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had… — Walter Pater
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile… — Walter Pater
It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing… — Edward Gibbon
The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his… — Dizzy Dean
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868 by… — Eustace Mullins
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of… — William McKinley
The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the… — Harold Innis
The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they… — Ezra Hall Gillett
I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth. — Joan Rivers
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the… — Alfred North Whitehead
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif… — Michel Foucault
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely… — Russell Page
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. — Walter Pater
You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is… — Zach Galifianakis
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth… — Jemima Kirke
I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March. — Jean Drapeau
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in… — H.G. Wells

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