Best 19th Century Quotes

144 19th Century quotes by 133 unique authors

• In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never… — John L. Phillips
• When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century… — James Hillman
• At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety. — Unknown Author
• OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY… — Cherie Priest
• I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and… — Walter Murch
• I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in… — Gordon Getty
• . . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if… — James A. Michener
• ..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read… — Peter Drucker
• The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by… — William James
• The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come… — Unknown Author
• Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century. — Carrie P Snow
• In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge… — Sheryl WuDunn
• One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern… — Steven Johnson
• The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of… — Unknown Author
• Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about… — Nell Freudenberger
• This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match… — Jose Mourinho
• In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In… — Stephen Ambrose
• The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our… — Ronald Reagan
• Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since… — Art Donovan
• As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party… — Michael Beschloss
• So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until… — Michael Beschloss
• Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured… — Marshall McLuhan
• Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women… — William J. Brennan
• And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying… — Robert Reich
• The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow,… — Jim Keith

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Who Wrote These 19th Century Quotes

133 authors contributed a total of 144 19th Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 19th Century Quotes by Unknown Author
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Winston Churchill
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Stephen Kinzer
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Seth Shostak
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Peter York
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Michael Beschloss
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Margaret Atwood
• 2 19th Century Quotes by John Irving
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Gordon Getty
• 1 19th Century Quote by Wim Crouwel
• 1 19th Century Quote by William James
• 1 19th Century Quote by William J. Clinton
• 1 19th Century Quote by William J. Brennan
• 1 19th Century Quote by Wesley Clark
• 1 19th Century Quote by Warren Buffett
• 1 19th Century Quote by Walter Murch
• 1 19th Century Quote by Viggo Mortensen
• 1 19th Century Quote by Twyla Tharp
• 1 19th Century Quote by Tom Standage
• 1 19th Century Quote by Timothy Noah
• 1 19th Century Quote by Thomas Pynchon
• 1 19th Century Quote by Terri Windling
• 1 19th Century Quote by Susan George
• 1 19th Century Quote by Sugata Mitra
• 1 19th Century Quote by Sue Monk Kidd