I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that…

— Robert Nelson

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century…

— Wellington Webb

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

— Amory Lovins

Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th…

— Michael Moore

Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at…

— Hillary Clinton

Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th…

— Wesley Clark

What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image…

— Kehinde Wiley

. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that…

— James A. Michener

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

— Alan Moore

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you…

— Zygmunt Bauman

By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell…

— Tom Standage

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of…

— Anonymous

“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The…

— Henry Adams

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

— Rosemary Mahoney