1838 Quotes

#1. In 1838, Connecticut paid $14.50 a month to male teachers and $5.75 a month to women.

Gail Collins

#2. Leading the boom of 1838 were state governments, who, finding themselves with the unexpected windfall of a distributed surplus from the federal government, proceeded to spend the money wildly and borrow even more extravagantly on public works and other uneconomic forms of 'investment.'

Murray Rothbard

#3. Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships cross the Atlantic.

David McCullough

#4. One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

Honore De Balzac

#5. I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there ... These are usual things.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#6. Never say 'pull yourself together' or 'cheer up' unless you're also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions.

Matt Haig

#7. If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

Victoria Principal

#8. Culture is worth a little risk,

Norman Mailer

#9. Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#10. Nobody gets outta this life alive no matter what they give up.

Terence Audette

#11. If everybody was treated like they matter - everyday; birthdays wouldn't be so *special.*

Mokokoma Mokhonoana