Steam Quotes

241 Steam quotes by 214 unique authors

In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I… — Abraham Lincoln
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — Unknown Author
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance… — Richard Owen
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw
I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my… — Sara Gruen
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived… — John Harvey Kellogg
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in… — Frederick Soddy
And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of… — Upton Sinclair
Brands were a by-product of having great products and communicating them well to people. Power stations that generate a lot of electricity probably have a… — Unknown Author
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Recently I stood in the desert, far out side of L. A., and watched the sun set on a circus tent from 1930. Every where… — Robert Pattinson
One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not… — Jose Mourinho
How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam… — Unknown Author
The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs… — Elayne Boosler
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough… — Edward Abbey
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam, — Charles Babbage
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. — Andrew Carnegie
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became… — L. Frank Baum
It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole… — Frank Bruno

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214 authors contributed a total of 241 Steam Quotes, led by these top contributors: