1883 Quotes

#1. Justice is the soul of the universe.

Omar Khayyam

#2. The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

Edward Carpenter

#3. The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

Buffalo Bill

#4. She knew that what made Sr. Adria decide had been the delicate way she had taken the book that he handed her by surprise: she took it delicately, almost lovingly, just as Elisa picked up the embroidery box when she found out about the death of her lover in Elisa Grant by Ballys (Pittsburg, 1883).

Jaume Cabre

#5. We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.

Lise Deharme

#6. Your mind is like a parachute : it's no use unless it's open. -the Spectator, 1883

Samantha Cote

#7. May We Love Ourselves.
May We Love Each Other.
May We Believe that Our Dreams Can Come True.
We Are Strong.
We Are Wise.
We Are the Heroines of our Own Lives
-The Heroine's Club benediction

Melia Keeton-Digby

#8. Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.

Douglas Brinkley

#9. 1891-1892 Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles. 1883 The New Colossus by EMMA LAZARUS, written to raise funds to complete the Statue of Liberty

John Jakes

#10. Almost pedantically, she added: They're not really bombs
they're acoustic provocations.

J.G. Ballard

#11. There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

Daniel Barenboim

#12. In the course of 1883, Beso became "touchy and very careless," getting into drunken fights and earning the nickname "Crazy Beso.

Anonymous

#13. About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#14. The reformer," Douglass explained in 1883, had "a difficult and disagreeable task before him. He has to part with old friends; break away from the beaten paths of society, and advance against the vehement protests of the most sacred sentiments of the human heart.

James Oakes

#15. When the business interests ... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

Carroll Quigley

#16. Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Calamity Jane

#17. I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

Orson Scott Card

#18. A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Frederik Pohl

#19. In the end... I am fucked up as hell... the problem isn't that I write to someone or speak to someone... but the silence...

Which comes within that noise...
...

within that text!?!?


It really fucks me up!

Deyth Banger

#20. Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.

Susan Stewart

#21. A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission. Important soundings were made by the United States Fish Commission steamer ALBATROSS in the Caribbean, during the winter of 1883-1884.

Alexander Agassiz

#22. Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

Carl Schurz

#23. It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge. - MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER IN HARPER'S WEEKLY, MAY 24, 1883

David McCullough