Quotes from authors born in 1847
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.
Anna Howard Shaw
Maurice de Vlaminck 
Brian Harvey 
Cassandra Peterson 
Khaleda Zia 
Kim Gordon 
Charles Kettering 
Larry Wall 
Jacqueline du Pre