Quotes of: Nineteenth-century Keyword

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

Robert Littell

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

Norman Lamm

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

Edward James Olmos

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

C. Everett Koop

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Charles de Montesquieu

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Henry David Thoreau

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beecher

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

Janet Montgomery

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

Joe Pantoliano

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

Dave Anderson

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

Jim Fowler

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.

Charlie Trotter

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

David Eagleman

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

Margaret Atwood

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

Robert Darnton

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Jonathan Sacks

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Chinua Achebe

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

Bing Crosby

I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.

Christian McKay