Quotes from authors born in 1853
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.
Lillie Langtry
Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.
Wilhelm Ostwald
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Jose Marti
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Jose Marti
Emma Thompson 
Claudia Johnson 
Sonia Sotomayor 
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe 
Eugenie Anderson 
Alan Vega 
Alfred Stieglitz 
Ben Harper