1876 Quotes

#1. Historically the buffalo had more influence on man than all other Plains animals combined. It was life, food, raiment, and shelter to the Indians. The buffalo and the Plains Indians lived together, and together passed away. The year 1876 marks practically the end of both.

Walter Prescott Webb

#2. God wept; but that mattered little to an unbelieving age; what mattered most was that the world wept and still is weeping and blind with tears and blood. For there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism and a new enslavement of labor.

Howard Zinn

#3. It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#4. g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois

Debois

#5. Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

Mary Augusta Ward

#6. What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.

Hans Vestberg

#7. The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Susan B. Anthony

#8. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Felix Adler

#9. As a character in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, set in 1876, remarks, "Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is.

Tim Wu

#10. Van Gogh on Christmas:
And now we're slowly heading towards winter, and many dread it, but Christmas is wonderful, it's like the moss on the roofs and like the pine and the holly and the ivy in the snow.
Isleworth, 10 November 1876

Liesbeth Heenk

#11. My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

Stephen Leacock

#12. The law in the United States, in every jurisdiction until about 1876, was that if a factory put smoke into the air, even one day a year, and it got onto a neighbor's property, the neighbor had the right to enjoin to close down the factory, and the courts had no choice but to do that.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#13. The time is when a library is a school, and the librarian is the highest sense a teacher. - Melvil Dewey, 1876

John Palfrey

#14. Screw humanity. I don't give the whole stinking bunch of us more than a couple of generations and good riddance. The universe is better off without us.

Ben Elton

#15. But let us imagine RIGHT NOW that we find out about a world where there are artists who paint without brushes, make music without instruments, and write without pen and paper. The very thought makes me happy. That this world could be ours, right here and now.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#16. Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

Angie Everhart

#17. Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.

Padgett Powell

#18. You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.

Mark Wahlberg

#19. I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

Henry Ford

#20. A well-adjusted person wouldn't talk much. There's not a lot to be said about most of life. Most days, weeks, years, lives, nothing happens... and still we carry on chattering at each other.

James Ferron Anderson

#21. A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

Walter Winchell