#age

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#ancestors #broad #cities #civilization #efforts

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#dying #go #i #page #want

Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance. ↗

— John Breaux

#going #health #health insurance #help #help people

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. ↗

— John Breaux

#also #coast #constructed #contributed #downstream

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#age #comedian #i #intellectually #just

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#death #does #even #middle #middle age

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#been #force #great #human #human life

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#bald #candidates #disagreeable #fat #how

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#doing #exactly #lay #oneself #places

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#administration #agencies #america #any #because