#liza

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #anywhere #ascent #attained #carries

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

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #art #civilization #contemporary #contemporary art

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#complete #conquest #experience #framework #history

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#arose #between #both #both sides #bridge

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#born #careful #civilization #corner #doubt

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#child #chopin #dame #elizabeth #her

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations. ↗

— John Bruton

#case #combating #crime #develop #eu

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. ↗

— John Buchan

#comfortable #compact #conspiracy #folk #keep

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#civilizations #development #fight #history #law