Quotes About 19th Century America

#1. Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.

Candice Millard

#2. We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

Barack Obama

#4. The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished in 19th century America better than 19th century Europe is because you had more equal distribution of wealth in America.

Thomas Piketty

#5. During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

Karen DeCrow

#6. Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.

Terry Teachout

#7. I've always said that L.A. is the city of America's future. It is to the world what London was in the 19th century and New York in the 20th because of the growth of the Pacific Rim countries. We're the portal to the emerging world.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#8. It was as true," said Mr. Barkis, " as turnips is. It was as true," said Mr. Barkis, nodding his nightcap, which was his only means of emphasis, " as taxes is.

Charles Dickens

#9. The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them the vote in 1920. Women couldn't even own property in their own names until the last quarter of the 19th century in America.

John Shelby Spong

#10. My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of my time doing gigs, TV appearances, interviews, or recording. I could write a book - and probably will.

Suzi Quatro

#11. We forget to appreciate what it meant for people to escape from the wages of medieval times to incomes two or three times the medieval level, as most people in Britain, America, France, and the German lands came to enjoy in the 19th century.

Edmund S. Phelps

#12. The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#13. I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

Barbara Jordan

#14. Because enough people in both cases voluntarily extended their services to the new leaders, Nazis and communists alike realized that they could move quickly toward a full regime change. The first heedless acts of conformity could not then be reversed. In

Timothy Snyder

#15. Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#16. 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

#17. eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants

Ann Howard Creel

#18. Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

Christina Baldwin

#19. Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

Rosemary Mahoney

#20. One can't step into the river twice

Ann Howard Creel

#21. Pro tip: If you're attacked by a creep, it's never your fault. Tell somebody.

Rick Riordan

#22. It's so awful when you need something from someone else, even though you're not sure what it is, and then you don't get it.

Terra Elan McVoy

#23. In America, they have specialist mystery book stores with whole sections devoted to cat mysteries, golf mysteries, quilting mysteries. It's a hugely broad genre from the darkest noir to tales of a 19th-century vet who solves crimes, thanks to his talking cat.

Mark Billingham

#24. I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

Garry Shandling

#25. Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves.

Stephen Richards

#26. This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

John Barth

#27. Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

Lillian Hellman

#28. I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.

Aaron Schock

#29. In America, we have 19th century school conditions and a curriculum that prepares our kids for the 1990s.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#30. You grow. You are large.
You are a 19th century poem.
All of America is inside you,
a catalogue of lives and land
and burrowing things.
-From "Catalogue

Donika Kelly