Yeast/history

Famous quotes containing the words yeast and/or history:

“Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread—without it, it’s flat.”
—Carmen McRae (b. 1922)

“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)