The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— John Rothenstein

The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

— Warren Buffett

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it…

— James Gleick

One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century.

— Jack the Ripper

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

— Werner Herzog

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

— Salman Rushdie

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

— Bing Crosby

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

— Péter Esterházy