Century Quotes

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.

I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.

At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have encountered a century ago for daring to question racist ideology.

If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans].

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.

It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.