Schießpulver / Gunpowder Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Schießpulver / Gunpowder:

We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works. Ana Patricia Botin

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

Mark Oliphant

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Thomas Carlyle

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Wendell Phillips

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Andre Maurois

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

John Boyd Orr

All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.

Nat Turner

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Philip James Bailey

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

Edward M. Lerner

We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.

Ana Patricia Botin

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

Gary Locke