#nineteen

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fighting #fought #freedom #had #hope

A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her. ↗

— Gene Ween

#actually #ago #been #divorced #five

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. ↗

— William Weld

#government #greatest #never #nineteenth #nineteenth century

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cannot #century #death #explain #facts

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#bone #both #by the time #first #fort

I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#because #been #fifteen #hijackers #i

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#already #beginning #come #culture #force

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#because #before #beginning #built #century

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. ↗

— James A. Michener

#century #complains #explains #great #i

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. ↗

— John Moody

#century #changes #chiefly #close #connection