1790 Quotes

#1. In 1790, the average age of first menstruation for European girls was just about eighteen, almost fifty percent older than today.

Howard Means

#2. by the 1790's an average American over fifteen years old drank just under six gallons of absolute alcohol each year. . . . The comparable modern average is less than 2.9 gallons per capita. We

Christopher Collier

#3. In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#4. The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.

Caleb Cushing

#5. The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in 1790 or 1830 or 1860. What else was reading but comprehending?

Neil Postman

#6. The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

Tom G. Palmer

#7. In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.

Robert Toombs

#8. Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.

Joseph J. Ellis

#9. See, I thinked, Meronym knows a lot 'bout Smart an' life but Valleysmen know more 'bout death.

David Mitchell

#10. Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.

Tom Berenger

#11. Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

A.J. Liebling

#12. When I'm not working I try to go natural and not wear a lot of makeup. I think your skin needs to breathe.

Nina Agdal

#13. The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

Scott Turow

#14. Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#15. I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#16. Remember: If you don't find risk, risk will find you.

Reid Hoffman

#17. It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing is the next line.

Tom Stoppard

#18. There was something about him, a kind of warm light from inside that you wanted to be near. It reminded her of those little plastic sticks that you snapped so the liquid inside made them glow.

Justin Cronin

#19. When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#20. Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

Pierre Corneille