#occurred

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#berlin #boxes #circle #event #eyes

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#changes #correction #deficiencies #despite #encouraging

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#ages #back #beyond #borders #court

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#i #lucky #me #never #occurred

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#been #had #i #leading #leading man

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#fair #i #make #me #my own

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#although #belief #believe #creation #days

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#any #force #i #interest #listened

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#difference #intelligence #me #men #occurred

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected. ↗

— Robert Welch

#comparatively #generalizations #had #his #impact