William The Conqueror Quotes

• No importan ni 1066 Guillermo el Conquistador, ni 1087 Guillermo II. Pero 1932 la barrita Mars, 1936 Maltesers y 1937 Kit Kat son fechas históricas que deberían grabarse a fuego en la memoria de todos los niños del país.

  Roald Dahl

  País, Recuerdos, Niños

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• Cuando Guillermo el Conquistador encargó un gran estudio de su reino inglés en Gloucester en 1085, el resultado fue una obra tan minuciosa, imparcial, desapasionada y amplia que a las generaciones posteriores les pareció provenir de otro mundo.

  James Buchan

  Generaciones, Mundo, Triunfar

  "El Día del Juicio... otra vez". www.theguardian.com. 6 de agosto de 2001.

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• Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Different, Dinosaurs

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.399, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband

  Jules Michelet

  Husband, Fear, Wife

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• Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

  Steven Pinker

  Character, Numbers, Historic

  "Surprising Family Trees!". abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• Es como decir que dos y dos son cuatro, pero si quieres creerlo, también podrían ser cinco... La evolución no es una teoría; es un hecho, tanto como el hecho histórico de que Guillermo el Conquistador desembarcó en 1066.

  David Attenborough

  Creer, Dos, Histórico

  "Attenborough revela el odio de los creacionistas por no dar crédito a Dios", por Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. 26 de enero de 2009.

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• In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Independence, Liberty

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). "The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan"

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• My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Father, Doctors

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