Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.
I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.
After I leave the earth my work is anyway going to belong to the world for centuries but till that time I want to work freely.
Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
It isn’t a case of marriage having been tried and found wanting. In this 20th century world, true marriage is deeply wanted, but largely untried.
The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.
I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND TELL EVERYONE... THAT THIS IS HAPPENING... IN THE CENTURY TWENTY-ONE
Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.
In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly half a century, is out of touch of what women and families are going through in California.
Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.
The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
