20th century Quote by David Starkey Download Open image “The whole history of the 20th century can be written in an utterly fascinating way.” — David Starkey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare 20th century Fascinating History Way
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened. — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we're to have a future in the 21st century, we'll want to be able to say, "Now what was the 20th century like… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century… — Cynthia Tucker Copy Share Image
The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic at the… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read all of… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Churchill may have made some horrendous mistakes - Gallipoli, for one - but he had a sense of the profundity and integrity of the… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Floating the idea that every kid in Brixton can become a whizkid at information technology is dishonest. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
What I love doing is creating a room, with attractive paintings and colours and furnishings - very much my mother. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
