History Quote by Gareth Huw Davies

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

— Olivier Messiaen

Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study…

— Roger Tory Peterson

“I guess you can't compare humans to birds. Humans are rational beings. They're not just creatures without any sense of responsibility, ruled by drives…

— Johanna Sinisalo

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more…

— Robert Winston

“But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to…

— Kenn Kaufman

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then…

— Linda M. Godwin

I started broadcasting in 1977 in radio and 1979 on TV.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

I do think that history lived, and a life lived, is as much to do with the birdsong you heard that morning as any…

— Bettany Hughes

“Birds have done great jobs for the progression of humanity: They kept alive our love for freedom and they insistently motivated us to reach…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“WE STOLE THE EAGLE FROM THE AIR FORCE, THE ANCHOR FROM THE NAVY AND THE ROPE FROM THE ARMY. ON THE SEVENTH DAY WHILE…

— USMC

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

— Ernest Bevin

“More of us concede that history can be entertaining, and we’re even willing to “watch some history” on TV whenever nothing better is on,…

— Robert Tracy McKenzie