Watershed Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Watershed Quotes from famous persons: Olivia Colman, Lydia Millet, Walter Cronkite, Claire Messud, David Levering Lewis. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Watershed Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

I’ve always done drama, but I suppose ‘Tyrannosaur’ was a bit of a watershed moment for me. It was like when Kathy Burke did ‘Nil By Mouth‘ – suddenly, people were saying, ‘Oh, she can do that, too.’

Olivia Colman

When ‘Watchmen‘ was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults.

Lydia Millet

The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

Walter Cronkite

For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn’t get people out on the streets, then what will?

Claire Messud

It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed.

David Levering Lewis

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Robert Morgan

‘Angels in America’ – which is composed of two three-hour plays, ‘Millennium Approaches‘ and ‘Perestroika’ – proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams‘s ‘The Glass Menagerie.’

John Lahr

In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.

Peter Fenton

2017 has been a watershed year for us. We steered our growth trajectory by upgrading and bringing beautiful living-spaces in the value economy segment through OYO Rooms, while launching our operated brand Townhouse.

Ritesh Agarwal

You know, there has never been a watershed moment with a coach when I’ve gone, ‘Wow, I learned something today.’

Graeme Souness

I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing, but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

Vijender Singh

I still think ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre‘ was what they call one of those watershed movies. That and ‘The Exorcist‘ and ‘Psycho‘ were just landmarks for those horror films.

Fred Willard

My parents always got a kick out of my art. I was always able to make them laugh. As I got older, I remember the thrill I got when I graduated from making my classmates laugh to making adults laugh. Kind of a watershed moment.

Steve Breen

The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there’s nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It’s the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

Douglas Coupland

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

Joe Baca

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That’s the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

Theresa May

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.

Opal Tometi

Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. ‘JFK,’ ‘The People vs. Larry Flynt,’ even ‘Lincoln‘: all of these boast excellent performances in scripts that are ultimately very conventional, even conservative.

Michelle Dean

This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed… Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

Oliver Tambo

The E.U. referendum is a major watershed in U.K. history. It will be important for the future of the Conservative party. It will be even more important for the future of our country.

John Redwood

The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.

Jim Gerlach

I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water came from the Sweeney Watershed, which meant we essentially drank acid mine drainage.

Paula Jean Swearengin

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