Herodotus Quotes
The Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them.Herodotus
Quotes to Explore
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
Yancy Butler -
When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
Yoshio Taniguchi -
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven -
I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
Ian Mckellen -
In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
Nadia Comaneci -
I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
A. J. Cook
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath -
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
Xavier Becerra -
I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
Idris Elba -
Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
Eddie Marsan -
In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
Larry Elder -
The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron -
I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
Ed Bradley -
Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
Rainn Wilson -
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
Jackie Collins -
Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
Danger Mouse
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick -
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
Horace Greeley -
One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
Sal Mineo -
I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
F. Gary Gray -
The Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them.
Herodotus