Steamboats Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead…
— Jack White
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My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is…
— Robert Fulton
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You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were…
— Walter Russell
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For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion is essentially like…
— Franklin Chang Diaz
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All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from…
— Jonathan Raban
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I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read…
— Roman Coppola
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My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I…
— Lincoln Steffens
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And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally wrote 'rarely' instead of 'really'.…
— Mitch Hedberg
Who Wrote These Steamboats Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 9 Steamboats Quotes as follows: