The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century…

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

— Wilfrid Laurier

“For more than half a century they belonged to one another. She detested the same characteristics in him that last day as she had…

— Fredrik Backman

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

I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back…

— Christine Jennings

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

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

— Bill Watterson

You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read poetry at…

— Robert Hass

In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th…

— Mustafa Akyol

Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th century. It was not…

— Amor Towles

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in…

— Lillian Hellman

Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the…

— Michael Haneke

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

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