#history

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#along #brought #dedicated #disappointed #fascinated

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there. ↗

— David Attenborough

#although #am #beginning #career #conveying

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. ↗

— David Attenborough

#cardinal #days #fact #factual #history

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. ↗

— David Attenborough

#films #get #glimpses #history #human world

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#bearing #being #birth #body #book

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president. ↗

— James Baker

#election #first #first time #happens #history

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. ↗

— Russell Baker

#earth #feel #history #like #makes

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history. ↗

— William Banting

#become #bodily #history #matters #mere

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#change #claim #does #future #history

For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#billion #deficit #deficits #estimated #federal