1879 Quotes

#1. Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#2. 51st and 52nd Streets for $700,000 in 1879 - the year

Jean Strouse

#3. Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection.
- The Babies speech 1879

Mark Twain

#4. I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

Carl Spitteler

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

Mary Augusta Ward

#6. Mary Cassatt's Painting #11: Lilacs in a Window, 1879

Stanley Cesar

#7. The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Albert Einstein

#8. My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.

Phil Everly

#9. Folks, if you give people things for free, don't blame them for taking them.

Rob Woodall

#10. waiting is our destiny. as creatures who cannot by themselves bring about what they hope for; we wait in the darkness for a flame we cannot light. we wait in fear for a happy ending that we cannot write. we wait for a 'not yet' that feels like a 'not ever.

Lewis B. Smedes

#11. If life hands you lemons,keep them. Because, hey, free lemons.-T-Shirt

Darynda Jones

#12. If it looks stupid on a rooster, it's probably gonna look stupid on you.

Cody Rhodes

#13. What could be more exciting! As long as you're fascinated and as long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.

Edna Ferber

#14. Russell Square is one of the odder areas of London.

Benedict Jacka

#15. With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

Oliver Sacks

#16. Memory revises me.

Li-Young Lee

#17. The deleriums of fever and the recollections of dreams rise out of the remote past: what the waking and the healthy seem to have forgotten, the sleeping and the sick remember.

Paul Radestock

#18. Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

Paul Mooney

#19. In one case, a group of innocent American tourists was taken on a tour bus through a country the members later described as "either France or Sweden" and subjected to three days of looking at old, dirty buildings in cities where it was not possible to get a cheeseburger.

Dave Barry