Quotes About 1900s

#1. Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.

Sam Kean

#2. Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions of the 1900s, 20th century.

David Spade

#3. They burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it occurs to me that they should consider doing it again, to purge the blight of well-meaning hipsters desperately trying to paint it rainbow

Lauren Beukes

#4. Montessori Schools. Dr. Maria Montessori developed the Montessori method of teaching in the early 1900s after observing children's natural curiosity and innate desire to learn.

Daniel H. Pink

#5. Early 1900s Hollywood was full of farmers battling to hold onto their land against a new influx of filmmakers who dug Hollywood's reliable weather and diverse landscape.

Shawn Amos

#6. My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America.

Merrick Garland

#7. We had had mass immigration from the late 1800s all the way through the early 1900s to the 1920s, and we had to pause the immigration in order to for the new arrivals to assimilate, to become Americans, to learn English, for one thing. The one thing - or not the one; there are many different things.

Rush Limbaugh

#8. Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#9. Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.

Keith Ellison

#10. I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.

Jay Hernandez

#11. In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.

Andre Holland

#12. But in the early 1900s, the medical profession began to promote the health benefits of tanning. Workers were increasingly moving into factories where complexions grew pallid, as the upper classes spent more time outside playing sports.

Anonymous

#13. The third Great Awakening is variously said to have started between the 1860s and 1890; it continued into the early 1900s and laid the ethical basis for the emancipation of women, the reforms of the New Deal and, later, the civil rights movement.

Charles Murray

#14. If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.

Max Von Essen

#15. I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

Gail Collins

#16. Autointoxication was the gluten of the early 1900s.

Anonymous

#17. Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#18. Holy crap, this is Dynasty except British with a better wardrobe and set in the early 1900s, I whispered to the TV.

Kristen Ashley

#19. All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

Pete Laney

#20. Once your baby starts to walk you'll realize why cribs are designed like prisons from the early 1900s. This is clearly because toddlers are a danger to themselves. The main responsibility for a parent of a toddler is to stop them from accidentally hurting or killing themselves.

Jim Gaffigan

#21. Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cahan

#22. If anyone has made you feel invisible or less-than, write a new narrative on your heart.

Jen Hatmaker

#23. I became addicted to the floating nature of nothingness, to the charm of its carefree pauses and to waiting. I magnified waiting. I wrote about waiting. I basked in its warm nook and completely let go of who I am or what I really wanted.

Ibraheem Hamdi

#24. Not hungry,' Case managed. His brain was deep-fried. No, he decided, it had been thrown into hot fat and left there, and the fat had cooled, a thick dull grease congealing on the wrinkled lobes, shot through with greenish-purple flashes of pain. 'You

William Gibson

#25. I haven't don anything wrong. At least, not for a few hours

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#26. Many people become prosperous only to realize that Success is more Fulfillment than Achievement.

R.v.m.

#27. Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

Walter Savage Landor

#28. If you're coasting,you're either losing momentum orelse you're headed downhill.

Joan Welsh