Century Quotes

Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor.

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.

I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

You took a quarter century off my age with that kidnapping stunt. No more going off with a strange men, hear me? -"You're a strange man." I'm your strange man.

I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, you get along with them, they're nice.'

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.

It has been an amazing presidential election in 2016. AMAZING. And I don't take it for granted. This sort of race comes along once every century or so.

Tim Ryan does not look like the 21st century democratic party. And should that matter?

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century.

I am confident that the next century will be better than this one.

I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly be produced in factories through synthetic processes, cell cultures, and so on.

From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.

In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.

The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level.

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil…. We [will] start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real estate.

I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.