Quotes about century
century fires focused nursing past people problem seems situation
It seems intolerable to me that in the 21st century we still have a situation where we can have these multiple-death fires in nursing homes, ... The problem now is to keep people focused on the problem. ... It's past time. James Shannon
century courageous half lost nation parks rosa stood true woman women
The nation lost a courageous woman and a true American hero. A half century ago, Rosa Parks stood up not only for herself, but for generations upon generations of Americans. Edward Kennedy
century great unusual
It's unusual to have such correspondence between two such great 20th century figures.
century enjoy tolerate
I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.
century complete democratic gains kenya last
It is unbelievable that in the 21st century this kind of thing can be happening. It is a complete reversal of the democratic gains Kenya has made in the last 15 years. Raila Odinga
century kids situation type
It is unbelievable in the 21st century that we have to have this type of situation to get kids to school. Gerry Kelly
century disease favorite fear life twentieth
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century
century dame education faith goal good harmony help higher host human knowledge learning lives moral plays provide quest restless students teaching technical understand
Notre Dame will provide an alternative for the 21st century - a place of higher learning that plays host to world-changing teaching and research, but where technical knowledge does not outrun moral wisdom, where the goal of education is to help students live a good human life, where our restless quest to understand the world not only lives in harmony with faith but is strengthened by it, John Jenkins
century common fun group matter motivating people putting rides several sharing together train
I've done several shorter races, century (100-mile) rides and marathons, and the Ironman is just a matter of putting it all together. This is a fun way to train because it's motivating to have a group of people working out together and sharing a common interest.
century england exciting good seemed xenophobia zombies
I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that. Darren Shan
century complacent history recent tells twentieth
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. Rowan Williams
century contact excuse eye pathology sadness tv
The TV is an out, an excuse for not having eye contact or for not having to come up with something interesting to say. Is it pathological? Yes. Is it sad? Yes. But pathology and sadness are part of 20th century American life.
century component graduate high kid missing sets skill
They are missing a component that is very important and should be one of the skill sets for the 21st century that every kid has when they graduate from high school. John Fahey
century cities ensuring interest rail reduce transport urban
Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion. Anthony Albanese
century easy morning people time
We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do. Alan Furst
century chose late moments novels time war
I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
century god hour listen man thousand voice watch
Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years. Johannes Tauler
century fact matter oriental people using
Transcending stereotypes was difficult, ... Often people don't want to know what was true. They want to know what is attractive. The fact of the matter is, no one in the mid-19th century here was using Oriental rugs; they were using wall-to-wall carpet.
century coming consider environmental hard main meal next
The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line. Bjorn Lomborg
century fine western
fine wines, jewelry, Western furniture, and 19th century paintings.
century far greater historic houses number
We have a far greater number of historic houses than 20th century houses.
century equivalent landing man
This was the 19th Century equivalent of man landing on the moon.
century last time
There has not been a time in the last century where there has been so much misunderstanding of the US and so much misunderstanding by the US of the world, Lawrence Summers
century certain china chinese misused outside owes sort
There is a certain attitude, I think, in China that ... we the Chinese were misused by the West, by the outside world, for well over a century and sort of the outside world owes it to us.
century deal extremely good proposed
We think the deal we proposed is an extremely good one. This is the deal of a century for us and Bangladesh.
century industries subsidize three
Why does the U.S. subsidize three industries of the 19th century and no industries of the 21st century?
century few foster job
In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.
century welcome
Welcome back to the 19th Century in Erie County,
century marriage takes tv written
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage. Joss Whedon
century disappoint forests great landscapes rivers
I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime. John Burnside
century 19th-century 18th-century
I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. Niall Ferguson
century 21st-century illiteracy
Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!
century course grief lady lasts twentieth
Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart: in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a year. Nazim Hikmet