Four Centuries Quotes

10 quotes by 10 authors

• The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade… — David W. Blight
• It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million,… — Richard Leakey
• "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the… — Thomas Jefferson
• In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, — Janet Echelman
• To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at… — Simone Weil
• You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a… — James Young
• Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. — Georges Braque
• A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had… — Jean Genet
• We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater… — Romeo LeBlanc
• After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the… — Pedro Pierluisi

Who Wrote These Four Centuries Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 10 Four Centuries Quotes as follows:

• 1 Four Centuries Quote by David W. Blight
• 1 Four Centuries Quote by Richard Leakey
• 1 Four Centuries Quote by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Four Centuries Quote by Janet Echelman
• 1 Four Centuries Quote by Simone Weil
• 1 Four Centuries Quote by James Young
• 1 Four Centuries Quote by Georges Braque
• 1 Four Centuries Quote by Jean Genet
• 1 Four Centuries Quote by Romeo LeBlanc
• 1 Four Centuries Quote by Pedro Pierluisi