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“At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.”

Years Three Sound Hours Cities History Mankind Hundred Foundation Germany Gates Rome Three Years Sixty Tribes Midnight Fury Gothic Eleven Awakened Trumpets Roman Empire Civilised

Author:Edward Gibbon

“If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.”

Ifs Men Humans Reason Character Form Choices Sound History Irrational Fury Human Reason

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until you realize there's been over thirty hours of TV dedicated to Honey Boo Boo.”

Long Reality Next Politics Sound Realizing Community Hours History Comedy Too Much Tvs Directors Thirty Honey Dedicated Documentaries Franklin Fourteen Boo Boo Honey Boo Boo

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.”

Matter Moments Sound History Rose Busy Confused Spheres Bells Busy Life Clamor

Author:Johan Huizinga

“It sounds funny to say, but we saw [Kate's wedding to Prince William] as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't realize - perhaps - the scale of it until afterwards. We all took on the roles as any family would.”

Reality Sound Realizing Family Roles History Saws Scales Kate Family History

Author:Pippa Middleton

“History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.”

Sound History Filled Shoes Slippers Wooden Shoes

Author:Voltaire

“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.”

Want Firsts Political Sound History One Thing Horse Complaining First Lady Saddles

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.”

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."”

People I Can Sound Silence History Terrible Can Not Drowning

Author:Eva Hart

“The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our study and contemplation of the earth, and the laws which govern its animate productions, ought no more to be considered in the light of a disturbance or deviation from the system, than the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter should be regarded as a physical event in the history of those heavenly bodies, however influential they may have become from that time in advancing the progress of sound philosophy among men.”

Source: Principles of Geology