Half Century Quotes

46 quotes by 45 authors

• Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made… — Phyllis McGinley
• While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used… — Herbert Hoover
• As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we… — Robert Bork
• Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century. — David Rockefeller
• The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water… — Al Gore
• The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history. — Lester R. Brown
• The journey to a different future must begin by defining the problem differently than we have done until now. . The task is not to… — Theo Colborn
• It has been my firm belief, based on my research and investigations over the past half century, that UFOs and their occupants, which I have… — George Fawcett
• The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans… — Sim Van der Ryn
• English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards… — Mary Augusta Ward
• Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a… — Meredith Willson
• Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality… — Kenzaburo Oe
• The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September… — Michael Shermer
• Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century. — Lord Mountbatten
• Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met… — Jerry Saltz
• A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no… — Don Kates
• I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the… — Donald Fagen
• The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where they would… — Martin Luther King III
• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. — Ralph Neas
• I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe that this universe's intricate laws manifest what scientists have… — Antony Flew

Who Wrote These Half Century Quotes

45 authors contributed a total of 46 Half Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Half Century Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
• 1 Half Century Quote by Herbert Hoover
• 1 Half Century Quote by Nick Hornby
• 1 Half Century Quote by Robert Bork
• 1 Half Century Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides
• 1 Half Century Quote by David Rockefeller
• 1 Half Century Quote by Jimmy Carter
• 1 Half Century Quote by Al Gore
• 1 Half Century Quote by Henri Matisse
• 1 Half Century Quote by Lester R. Brown
• 1 Half Century Quote by Michael Eric Dyson
• 1 Half Century Quote by Theo Colborn
• 1 Half Century Quote by Thomas Steinbeck
• 1 Half Century Quote by George Fawcett
• 1 Half Century Quote by Arthur Erickson
• 1 Half Century Quote by Sim Van der Ryn
• 1 Half Century Quote by James Meade
• 1 Half Century Quote by Mary Augusta Ward
• 1 Half Century Quote by Robert Byrd
• 1 Half Century Quote by Meredith Willson
• 1 Half Century Quote by Mary A Ward
• 1 Half Century Quote by Kenzaburo Oe
• 1 Half Century Quote by Collie Buddz
• 1 Half Century Quote by Michael Shermer
• 1 Half Century Quote by Alexandria Watson