Century Quotes

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

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

Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

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

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

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.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves.