Century Quotes

Without a song, each day would be a century.

— Mahalia Jackson

Truth takes no account of centuries.

— William Wordsworth

New York is the city of the 21st century.

— Santiago Calatrava

This is the century of fear.

— Albert Camus

Women have been kicking ass for centuries.

— Yancy Butler

I am a person of the 18th century.

— Cecilia Bartoli

It was a little skirmish across a century.

— Margery Allingham

“You’re so seventeenth century.”

— Susan Catalano

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

— Barbara Amiel

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

— S. J. Perelman

If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

— Barry Humphries

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.

— Philip Larkin

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

— Niall Ferguson

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

— Jimmy Buffett

The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.

— Paul Gilding

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

— Dalai Lama

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

— Aldous Huxley

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

— Joan M. Drury

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to,…

— Dave Barry

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America…

— Hunter S. Thompson

No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our…

— Michael Dowd

You’ll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century.…

— Beano Cook

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is…

— John Lukacs

The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.

— Kedar Joshi

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke…

— Oscar Wilde

China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on…

— Noam Chomsky

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In…

— Andrew Greeley

She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England…

— Seth Lloyd

Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized…

— Dale Purves

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality. Buildings…

— Christopher Alexander

I've always believed that government tends to screw up whatever it touches, but Obama in particular seemed different. He understood tech issues…

— Michael Arrington

If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done…

— John Dominic Crossan

The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they…

— Robert Reich

Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years…

— Pete Seeger

Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God,…

— Ronald Reagan

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace…

— Charles Darwin

With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again -…

— Hisham Melhem