#nineteen

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#basically #because #currently #great #half

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#crew #day #determined #dismayed #leagues

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#again #belief #century #commune #creating

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#glaringly #good #henry #henry james #james

I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#life #nineteen #road #years #death

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. ↗

— John Thorn

#chain #clear #describes #events #game

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

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#below #cold #feet #felt #keenly