Century Quotes · Page 5

In the 21st century, culture is power.

— Park Geun-hye

India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.

— Rahul Gandhi

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

— Jerry Coleman

“I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us.”

— Penelope Lively

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

— Anonymous

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

— Barack Obama

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

— Robert Motherwell

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind

— Ednita Nazario

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

— Anonymous

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb…

— Mortimer Collins

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions…

— Margaret Visser

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be…

— Bertrand Russell

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests…

— Rick Larsen

I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.

— Olivia De Havilland

People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the…

— Julia Child

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes…

— John Moody

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner…

— Guy de Maupassant

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power…

— Carroll Quigley

India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers…

— Arundhati Roy

In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all…

— Benedict Wong

There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940…

— Peter Stilbs

Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory…

— Peter Medawar

Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but…

— Paulo Coelho

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to…

— David Hume

Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not…

— Ron Paul

John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His…

— Carlos Santana

What will be interesting to see is whether or not we see from the [Donald Trump] administration initiatives on higher education for…

— Judy Woodruff

I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything…

— Michael Chabon

The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever…

— Lewis Thomas

The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen…

— Kevin Spacey

Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an…

— Hugh Miller

I look forward to the time when the churches come to celebrate and honour the work of animal protection as an imperative…

— Andrew Linzey

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

— Ken Burns

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

— Antonio Porchia

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

— Henry A. Wallace

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

— Theodore Zeldin

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

— Penelope Wilton