Population Boom Quotes

The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!

All Western cities face significant challenges on social integration. Our populations are booming, but social integration is not keeping pace. Rapid growth is a sign of our success, but it also puts stress on housing, infrastructure - and on communities.

For if we can remove the turbulent Gallics [French], our people according to exactest computations, will in another century, become even more numerous than England itself.

What is clear is that in 1900, Galveston was growing fast, had already become the number one cotton port on the Gulf Coast, and was already being referred to as 'the New York of the Gulf.'

In only 37 years, our population will grow by a number equivalent to all the people in the world at the beginning of World War II.

People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.

As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.

I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.'

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.

As far back as the 1800s, people were moving to Florida to make their dreams come true.

If allowed to continue, the population will increase by 12 million—two more Scotlands—in 20 years. That’s huge.

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

If anybody was to look towards a big source of demand in future, it would be hard for them to miss India.

When I came to Bombay, as it was called in my time, it was filled with people from everywhere, Kashmir to Kerala.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.