19th Century American Quotes

#1. I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

Tracy Chevalier

#2. I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.

Josh Lieb

#3. I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn't been changed since the 19th century.

Susanna Kearsley

#4. You will face many troubles. But the Lord will deliver you each time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

Fred Whitehead

#6. Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Warren Bennis

#7. Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

Auguste Rodin

#9. In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.

Darryl Pinckney

#10. For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness.

Daisy Goodwin

#11. So which of your Lord's favors do you two deny? You and I are absent, you and I are present and absent. So which of your Lord's favors do you two deny?

Mahmoud Darwish

#12. But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Ron Silver

#13. Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

Karen DeCrow

#14. I fantasized about claiming all of her orgasms for the next year.

Lisa Lang Blakeney

#15. When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

James Hillman

#16. Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

Adam Smith

#17. Your time on this earth is limited, don't live someone else's life, live by your vision

Steve Jobs

#18. Peter Parker has superpowers, but he still has trouble making rent every month. I identify with that in a way that I don't with, like, Superman, for instance. He's just less interesting because he's too perfect.

Timothy Miller

#19. Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#20. It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

Thomas Paine

#21. I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people.

Lucas Papademos

#22. Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.

Robert Wyatt

#23. I try to have sex as much as I can.

Olivia Munn

#24. [N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#25. Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#26. You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

Michael Beckwith

#27. Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#28. When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.

Joe Posnanski