1894 Quotes

#1. A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
[Letter to the Millicent (Rogers) Library, February 22, 1894]

Mark Twain

#2. BORN: 1856 George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Major Barbara), Dublin 1894 Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Crome Yellow), Godalming, England DIED: 1934 Winsor McCay

Tom Nissley

#3. I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894 ... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

Marie Curie

#4. In a report dated 20 February 1894, French ambassador Paul Cambon describes a high-ranking Turkish official telling him that "the Armenian question does not exist, but we shall create it.

Taner Akcam

#5. Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City.

Brendan I. Koerner

#6. A mind stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), Progressive Physician, Author

Cary Ellis

#7. The Verbalist, 1894

Ammon Shea

#8. The club supporters' old practice of shooting arrows into the air from their wands every time their Chasers scored was banned by the Department of Magical Games and Sports in 1894, when one of these weapons pierced the referee Nugent Potts through the nose.

J.K. Rowling

#9. Maximilian Kolbe : (1894-1941), what an amazing life! A role model to me and to millions of people around the world. He wanted to be one of the greatest saints in the world. I want to be "A gift from God to Mankind", the meaning of my first name : Teddy.

Teddy Crispin

#10. 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

#11. Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.

Albert Claude

#12. The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#13. It is possible to make people contented with their servitude. You can provide them with endless amounts of distraction and propaganda.

Huxley Aldous 1894-1963

#14. I used to ask myself, 'Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?' and thanks to the club, I spend it on both and am called a patron of the arts.

Melika Dannese Lux

#15. Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.

Peter Thiel

#16. A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If

Timothy Zahn

#17. To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

Muhammad Ali

#18. The bodies of a man and his dog fused together, skin and fur melded. Nobody wanted to die alone.

Jeremy Robert Johnson

#19. Generally, when you let go of your vision of how something is supposed to be, the universe hands you exactly what you need.

Sheryl Crow

#20. All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.

Eugenio Maria De Hostos

#21. It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

Brandon Thomas

#22. I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Yuri Milner