Quotes About 1906

#1. Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize a close friend to perform one plural marriage as late as 1906, and o.k.'d another one that occurred in 1907.

D. Michael Quinn

#2. In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.

Gino Severini

#3. Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

David Goodstein

#4. In 1906 he and Hulda made the first of several trips to London to sift through the records.

Bill Bryson

#5. The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power. Signed Wilbur and Orville Wright, March 12, 1906.

David McCullough

#6. I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.

Vladimir Prelog

#7. I was married once
in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.

W.C. Fields

#8. Die Luft der Freiheit weht (The wind of freedom stirs). Since 1906, that obscure German phrase has encircled the Stanford Tree in the school emblem.

Greg Steinmetz

#9. When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.

Alan Huffman

#10. Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions.

Johannes Stark

#11. When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)

Henny Youngman

#12. In 1906, I developed pleurisy and was unable to get into condition. So I asked for my release and obtained it. So ended my Major League career.

Kid Nichols

#13. Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857, near Tejon Pass outside Los Angeles, the two sides shifted thirty feet.

John McPhee

#14. Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

Stephen Kinzer

#15. The Iranian revolution of 1906 gave Zoroastrians a seat in the country's parliament.

Gerard Russell

#16. Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.

William Bernhardt

#17. I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

Yahoo Serious

#19. Kafka earned his doctorate in law in 1906 but decided against practicing, to the disappointment of his father.

Franz Kafka

#20. My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew.

Melanie Mayron

#21. And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

E.L. Doctorow

#22. In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.

Marie Curie

#23. Here are some dates at which women were granted the vote: New Zealand 1893 Australia 1902 Finland 1906 Norway 1913 United States 1920 Britain 1928 France 1945 Belgium 1946 Switzerland 1971 Kuwait 2006

Richard Dawkins

#24. Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

Edmund Morris

#25. I was sick of people making fun of my hair and so I cut it off and I've got much more attention than ever before. It was like when Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1906 - three times more people came to see where it used to be.

Emo Philips

#26. Up late talking to the fans on a website, That's the only thing that send ya man off to bed right

Joe Budden

#27. I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

Lisa Scottoline

#28. Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

Charles Spurgeon

#29. It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

Saint Augustine

#30. When we kiss, his lips on mine are like CPR
breathing the life back into me.

Sonya Sones

#31. To hire someone willing to undertake an unspecified task, likely involving violence.

William Gibson

#32. Being a pumpkinhead is great."
"Your HEAD is a PUMPKIN.

Justin Robinson

#33. You must always confront your fears," Goon said as though she hadn't spoken. "Then skulking monsters become merely unfamiliar shadows, thrown by a tree bough. Whispering voices are just the wind. The wild flare of panic is merely a burst of emotion, not a terror spell cast by some evil witch.

Charles De Lint