1770s Quotes

#1. What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

L. Neil Smith

#2. In the 1770s, when he was in Paris, Benjamin Franklin witnessed the flight of one of the first hot-air balloons. As the balloon soared into the air, someone asked Franklin: "What good is it?" Franklin responded: "What good is a new-born baby?

Benjamin Franklin

#3. I want people to see their own power.

Ai Weiwei

#4. In some seasons, Jesus asks us, Will you still love Me when things are not happening the way that you thought they would happen?

Mike Bickle

#5. Standing in a bookstore, near a street where you used to live, I found myself wishing you would walk through the door and we could meet for the first time, all over again.

Lang Leav

#6. My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

Katy B

#7. Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.

Dennis Lehane

#8. He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

Jeanette Winterson

#9. If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.

Randall Terry

#10. True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

Sinclair B. Ferguson