Quotes of: Nineteenth-century Keyword

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.

Life

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

Victor Davis Hanson

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

Betty Dodson

Everyone is political in his or her own way.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

Chess Meets of the Century

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

Dark Prince

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

John Lahr

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Tori Amos

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

Rachel Cusk