Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek Quotes

#1. In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#2. General Gar, the leader of the Conquerors, was waiting for them. The Devourer.

Eliot Schrefer

#3. Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#4. Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#5. I have not had a drink for four years, which for me is a long time.

Kelly McGillis

#6. And now,' said the stranger, 'farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude ... Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! I have taken the place of Providence to reward the good; now let the avenging God make way for me to punish the wrongdoer!

Alexandre Dumas

#7. Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.

Adam Rich

#8. I crave the violence of your affection. I ache for the way it jumbles my insides and makes my heart feel like it's harboring a thunderstorm. I've never felt more alive in all my time on this earth, as I have, being underneath your touch.

LeAnne Mechelle

#9. Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Dinaw Mengestu

#10. It just so happened that they agreed on politics and religion. It was precisely that agreement that has caused most observers to associate them with one another.

Joseph Pearce

#11. A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#12. I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#13. People know what they're getting with me. It's part and parcel of football that people want to see new faces, but all I can do is play games, score goals and prove I can do it. My record is there for everyone to see.

Jermain Defoe

#14. City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.

Arne Duncan

#15. I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#16. He says he was physically not right, that's fine but the mentality, even if you're not right, you're still in a fight and you still show what you have deep down inside, and I don't think he showed the mettle that he needed to show in that fight in order to beat a guy like Miranda.

Andre Ward