Quotes of: Century Keyword

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

Claire Tomalin

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Diane Ravitch

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

Ridley Scott

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

William Hague

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

Walter Pater

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

Leon Kass

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

Leonard Slatkin

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.

Wayne Swan

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

Carlos Fuentes

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

Hope Davis

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

Ron Silver

Truly, was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

Ernst W. Mayr

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

Ednita Nazario

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Georg Buchner

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

Ingrid Newkirk

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

Dwight Yoakam

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Bill Gates

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Barack Obama

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

John Lothrop Motley

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

David Hockney