Census Quotes

54 quotes by 49 authors

All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents… — Upton Sinclair
A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little… — Thomas Harris
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei,… — Thomas Pynchon
Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under… — Richard Dawkins
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census… — K. V. Thomas
We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of… — Chang-Rae Lee
The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example,… — Bill Dedman
I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census.… — Samuel R. Delany
Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that,… — Rory Bremner
I believe in two things: Chicken, and that the census is a way for the UN to make your children gay. -Champ Kind — Anchorman 2
I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even… — Mark Davis
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime… — Elijah Cummings
Pine Ridge is simply the poorest census tract in the nation...The main business on the reservation is a gas station. All of the housing is… — Andrew Cuomo

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