Century Quotes · Page 7

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the…

— Pope John Paul II

New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some…

— Donald E. Westlake

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

— Celia Green

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park,…

— James Howard Kunstler

In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in…

— Francis Schaeffer

Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived.…

— David Starkey

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries…

— Nikola Tesla

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"…

— Camille Paglia

I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century.

— Vanessa Kirby

Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into…

— David Letterman

Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car…

— Sheri S. Tepper

We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.

— Pele

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite…

— Benjamin Zablocki

Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We…

— Michael Novak

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

— Russell Baker

One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential…

— William A. Rusher

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

— T Bone Burnett

The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How…

— Greg Nickels

Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine…

— Annalee Newitz

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

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

— John Berger

Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the…

— John Harvey Kellogg

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave…

— Charlie Crist