Alessandro Volta Famous Quotes & Sayings

Came of age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over — Tom Brokaw

I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human. — Zeresenay Alemseged

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons. — Patti Smith

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people. — Robert Hilburn

We wait, we wait,
And the saints and martyrs wait, for those who shall be martyrs and saints.
Destiny waits in the hand of God, shaping the still unshapen:
I have seen these things in a shaft of sunlight.
Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen
Who do, some well, some ill, planning and guessing,
Having their aims which turn in their hands in the pattern of time. — T. S. Eliot