Quotes About Steamboats

#1. This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

Jack White

#2. Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships cross the Atlantic.

David McCullough

#3. The world admires wealth and velocity - these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

#4. Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.

Bruce Springsteen

#5. I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

John Fowles

#6. I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

Lydia M. Child

#7. The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

Bruce Jenner

#8. I'd like to get some new clothes, but I can't find a Big and Short store.

Rodney Dangerfield

#9. When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you ... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

Sholom Aleichem

#10. There are no honorable causes. There is no good or evil. Evil is only what we call those who oppose us.

Michael Sullivan

#11. I know the power of speech. I don't talk much.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#12. We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

Charles Siebert

#13. robbing banks and killing people in the

Tom Gallagher