Quotes of: Century Keyword

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Dalai Lama

My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like.

Debi Mazar

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

Jeff Goodell

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

James Hansen

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

Edward James Olmos

I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that whole time period.

Juliet Landau

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

Deborah Harkness

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Robert M. Gates

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

Sebastian Arcelus

I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.

Tom Hodgkinson

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

Daryl Hall

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

Gavin Bryars

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Michael Tippett

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

Karen DeCrow

We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.

Al Franken

'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film.

Albert S. Ruddy

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Albert Schweitzer

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

Barbara Amiel

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

Tom Tancredo

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

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