20th Century Quotes - Page 16

• No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.

  Ken Burns

  Baseball, Hero, Book

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• When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way.

  Donna Edwards

  Children, School, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Struggle, Class, Our World

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture in literature delivered only to the Swedish Academy, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

  Charlton Heston

  Artist, Pals, Stuff

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• People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

  Thornton Wilder

  New York, Growing Up, Book

  Thornton Wilder (1968). “Our town: a play in three acts”

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• For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat. But to those who remain enthralled, it is a fabulous story of oustanding success and splendid achievement, by comparison with which Britain's 20th century records seems at best unimpressive, and often distinctly lacklustre.

  David Cannadine

  Achievement, Stories, Records

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• Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Cities, Three, Manhattan

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• We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

  Todd Gitlin

  Movement, May, Awful

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

  John Keegan

  People, Islam, Middle East

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• The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus and extent of the world picture of the West at the end of the 20th century.

  Batya Gur

  Character, Stories, World

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• Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

  Gene Tierney

  Girl, Foxes, Century

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• Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

  Harry Shearer

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• The car was the iPhone of the 20th century. Kids these days don't have to drive anymore. They just go there virtually.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Iphone, Car

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• I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Arrogance, Suffering, Doe

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• Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

  Aristotle

  Money, People, Greek

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• Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.

  J. G. Ballard

  Fashion, Skulls, Heaven

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• You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life for them and their children. And, in the main, they succeeded. It is hard to find any century in history, in which so large a number of people experience so great an improvement in the conditions of their life, in the opportunities open to them, as in the period of the 19th and early 20th century.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Children, Opportunity

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• The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

  Lester R. Brown

  Use, Fuel, World

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• I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal.

  Lou Reed

  Cities, Drug, Age

  "Lou Reed v Lester Bangs: a classic interview from the vaults". www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• That's a chapter - the last chapter - of the 20th ... 20th ... the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Lasts

  "Bush takes off the gloves as polls slide" by Toby Harnden, www.independent.ie. October 26, 2000.

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• Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Next, Poet, Century

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• The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates.

  Tony Buzan

  Reading, Development, Normal

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• I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and that restrictions would foul you up, lead to frustration which leads to violence, crime, mental breakdown, depending on what sort of makeup you have underneath. The further this age we're in now gets into technology and alienation, a lot of the points he's made seem to manifest themselves all down the line.

  Jimmy Page

  Frustration, Makeup, Technology

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• I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government’s policy towards people of color.

  Assata Shakur

  Government, Color, Racism

  "Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals And the U.S. Prison Regime". Book by Dylan Rodríguez, 2006.

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• As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

  George W. Bush

  Historical, Democracy, World

  National Endowment for Democracy Address on the Middle East, delivered 6 November 2003, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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