1582 Quotes

#1. Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#2. I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

Andrew Bird

#3. No day before October 10, 1582, actually occurred on the Gregorian calendar for that was when the calendar was implemented officially.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.

Adrian Desmond

#5. The library drew Bean down the street, as it had drawn all of us over the years. Our parents had trained us to become readers, and the town's library had been the one place, other than church, that we visited every week.

Eleanor Brown

#6. Happiness can be thought, taught and caught ... but not bought.

Harvey MacKay

#7. Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind.

Nanao Sakaki

#8. I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

Steve Wozniak

#9. Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

Bill Maher