Century Quotes


You've got to very much be part of today's society and you've got to use 21st Century techniques to draw attention to what you believe in. - Lesley Garrett


Young people don't know what it feels like to be in those kinds of struggles... I mean, they've got their own struggles, now -- lack of education, lack of opportunity, lack of respect. But in the civil rights movement, people were willing to die, get bitten by dogs, hosed. That was the difference. Our challenge is: How should the civil rights movement look in the 21st century? - Lennox Yearwood


Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done. - Russell Means


You would never get away with designing an aircraft as noisy and fuel inefficient as the Concorde in the early days of the 21st Century. - Paul Jackson


You see fully wainscoted walls in the first half of the 18th century. Wainscoting was also a sort of early insulation, especially for stone houses, where the walls could be cold and damp. Wood absorbs heat for a cozy feeling. - Doug Bucher


You might say the Orthodox are set in their ways. But it is the reverence for tradition, and respect for the historic decisions made in the fourth century that motivate us to hold fast to our Easter tradition. - Father Christopher Flesoras


You mean this week's game of the century? - Tony Dungy


You just want to translate what you see. I keep saying I am no different from a 19th-century landscape artist. - Maya Lin


You just couldn't write short stories after Hemingway in the 19th-century manner, which is what American writers did until the 1920s. - Michael Reynolds


You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. - Henry Campbell-Bannerman


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