Quotes About The Boston Tea Party

#1. (the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)

Marisha Pessl

#2. I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon ... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

Russell T. Davies

#3. To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

Adelle Davis

#4. Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

Dambisa Moyo

#5. Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

Janeane Garofalo

#6. They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.

Jonathan Richman

#7. I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#8. if the seas were cleaned of whales and seals. Then, infested with poulps, medusae, and cuttle-fish, they would become immense centres of infection, since

Jules Verne

#9. You don't have to like a man to respect him.

Janny Wurts

#10. When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

Rick Warren

#11. By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Sextus Propertius

#12. Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.

Mason Cooley

#13. Pomona's Tom's age and lucky enough to be as pretty as her name - so dangerous, don't you think, giving romantic names to little scraps who may grow up as plain as doorposts.

A.S. Byatt

#14. The age of the book is almost gone.

George Steiner

#15. one look his fears of a dog-fighting ring were valid. Blood was spattered around a makeshift wooden ring. Chains were piled up in a corner. He could see where the cages had been placed in the grass by the indents, but they were gone now. A dead cat was dangling from a tree branch.

Kathleen Brooks

#16. I don't have time' is the same as saying 'I am not committed

Steven Aitchison

#17. Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Young. Yet it was Young who came up with the idea for the original tea party - the one in Boston Harbor.

Matthew Stewart

#18. Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

George Muller

#19. History is the science of things which are not repeated.

Paul Valery