Top 1200 Nineteenth Century Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.
Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.
In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on 'multiculturalism', including the diversity of languages.
All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.
Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism
As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.
It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.
News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.
Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.
Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.
We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
In America, we have 19th century school conditions and a curriculum that prepares our kids for the 1990s.
The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow... on how elections are won in the 21st century.
I think the match up is one of the century and I have what it takes to take Cyborg down, if anyone does.
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century
All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.
A good rapper is an amazing thing to me. It's like a 17th-, 18th-century poet.
Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor.
We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
History will tell you that borders are not inevitable, they hardly existed at the end of the 19th century.
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.
Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
