19th Quotes

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 oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. - James Hillman

When they say 'navigable,' they are referring to a definition that dates back to the 19th century, not the Clean Water Act. But even using that definition, it has long been accepted that the U.S. can protect upstream waters in order to protect downstream waters. - Howard Fox

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. - Calvin Trillin

When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth. - Kurt Andersen

We're now in the 19th month of the NCAA process. Having a coach in limbo or having a coach suspended would be grossly unfair to the young people who play basketball at Ohio State. It would have arrested any development of our program and that would have been an untenable solution. - Andy Geiger

We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence. - Jarrod Agen

Welcome back to the 19th Century in Erie County. - Dennis Ward

We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production. - Nina Fedoroff

We were a touch fortunate, in fact, to win that one. It went to extra holes and their player missed a putt at the 19th to win it for them before Keith Nicholson came to our rescue - once again - at the next hole. - Denys Flaherty