The twentieth will be a short century,” he said. “Either…

“The months after the fall of the Wall constituted one of the few points in history when the past seemed to lead to the…

— David Burr Gerrard

“I think that we were both wrong. I think that Arthur had sex with his sister to create a short century.” “Daddy, what are…

— David Burr Gerrard

“We must get out of the banged-up century, some said, out of this cheating, murderous century of riot and secret death, of scrabbling for…

— John Steinbeck

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.

— Dale Ahlquist

We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

— Charles Hartshorne

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one…

— Anzia Yezierska

Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.

— Robert H. Schuller

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of…

— Rick Perlstein

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will…

— Freeman Dyson

Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living…

— S. Jay Olshansky

“Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.”

— Péter Esterházy

“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova