(347 quotes found)
“It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.”
Rachel Carson
“Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.”
Daniel Kleppner
“Well I failed to bring Roger to Flint. As we neared the end of the twentieth century, the rich were richer, the poor, poorer. And people everywhere now had a lot less lint, thanks to the lint rollers made in my hometown. It was truly the dawn of a new era.”
Michael Moore
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.”
Dave Anderson
“From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. . . . In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.”
William Blum
“The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.”
Claude Debussy
“In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in.”
T.S. Eliot
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