Census Quotes
54 quotes by 49 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Census Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 54 Census Quotes, led by these top contributors: