Epidemic Of 1918 Quotes & Sayings

But in my heart, when I said "my king," I meant Verity. — Robin Hobb

Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa — John Powell

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. — Theodore Sturgeon

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. — James Rainwater

least 40 million people died as a result of the epidemic, the majority of them suffocated by a lethal accumulation of blood and other fluid in the lungs. Ironically, unlike most flu epidemics, but like the war that preceded and spread it, the influenza of 1918 disproportionately killed young adults. One in every hundred American males between the ages of 25 and 34 fell victim to the 'Spanish Lady'. — Niall Ferguson

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. — Tom Glazer

Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself. — Rosemary Ellen Guiley

The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time. — Marcel Duchamp