Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Keanu Charles Reeves: (Beirut, 2 September 1964) is a Canadian film actor. Reeves’ first name means ‘cool wind over the mountains’ in Hawaiian. His father is from Hawaii and his mother is British; they met while both working in Lebanon. After his parents divorced in 1966, his mother emigrated with the children to Toronto. Reeves… Lees verder Keanu Reeves

Emilio Castelar y Ripoll: (Cádiz, 7 September 1832 – San Pedro del Pinatar, 25 May 1899). Spanish politician and author. From 7 September 1873 to 3 January 1874, he was the fourth president of the First Spanish Republic. Freedom is the instrument that God placed in man’s hands to realise his destiny.      … Lees verder Emilio Castelar

Christian Friedrich Hebbel: (Wesselburen, 18 March 1813 – Vienna, 13 December 1863). He was a German writer, the last representative of bourgeois drama and the most important playwright of realism. Everyone has a charm on their face; someone likes it! There is one sure sign of self-knowledge: when you notice more faults in yourself than… Lees verder Friedrich Hebbel

Emanuel Lasker: (Berlinchen (Prussia), 24 December 1868 – New York, 11 January 1941). German mathematician and chess grandmaster. He was world chess champion from 1894 to 1921. I want to educate students who have the ability to think for themselves and to exercise criticism.        

Theunis Uilke (Theun) de Vries: (Veenwouden, 26 April 1907 – Amsterdam, 21 January 2005). Dutch (Frisian) writer of mainly historical and social novels. He was also active as a poet, playwright and radio playwright, and he also wrote biographies and essays. Freedom is dressed in red.

Marion Hedda Ilse Countess Dönhoff: (Königsberg, 2 December 1909 – Friesenhagen, 11 March 2002) was a prominent German journalist. Dönhoff came from a distinguished noble family. Her father, Count August Karl Dönhoff, was a diplomat and politician. Her mother, Maria von Lepel, was a lady-in-waiting in extraordinary service to the last German empress, Augusta Victoria.… Lees verder Marion Gräfin Dönhoff

Andy Goldsworthy: (Cheshire, 26 July 1956) is an English sculptor, photographer and land art artist. We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.        

David Hilbert: (Königsberg (East Prussia), 23 January 1862 – Göttingen, 14 February 1943). German mathematician who is considered one of the most influential mathematicians of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His own discoveries alone would have earned him this honour, but it was his leading role in mathematics throughout his life and the “training… Lees verder David Hibert

Anthony Robert (Anthony) Eden, Earl of Avon: (Durham, England, 12 June 1897 – Alvediston, England, 14 January 1977). British politician and diplomat of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957. Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.      … Lees verder Anthony Eden

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam: (15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015). Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the president of India from 2002 to 2007. Born and raised in a Muslim family in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, Kalam studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and… Lees verder Abdul Kalam