Famous quotes containing the words von, place, date and/or birth:
“We said that the history of mankind depicts man; in the same way one can maintain that the history of science is science itself.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“I think being a woman is like being Irish.... Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
“Ev’rythin’s up to date in Kansas City.”
—Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)
“Heaven does not permit the birth of useless people.”
—Chinese proverb.