Century Quotes - Page 35

• Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to be, and as the Jews thought it was going to be, except there had been a resurrection from the dead. Then you can explain Christendom, churches, and literatures, if Christ rose again; but otherwise they cannot be explained at all. Our whole civilization rests on the broken Cross of the Master, and it is incredible that a civilization like this, in a world advancing steadily for eighteen centuries, has been founded on a lie.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Easter, Lying, Civilization

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• There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.

  Elaine Pagels

  Women, Thinking, People

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• Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

  Angela Merkel

  Challenges, Humanity, Twenties

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• By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs, our industries, the kind of cars we drive - will be forever transformed by the climate and energy challenge.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Jobs, Home, Car

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• Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  New York, Sea, Cities

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• Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.

  Judith Curry

  Mind, Addresses, Able

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• exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Psychology, Twenties, Might

  Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.144, St. Martin's Press

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• And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember.

  Santiago Martinez Delgado

  Art, Wall, Names

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• I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

  Martin Firrell

  21st Century, Conscience

  International Herald Tribune, November 24, 2005.

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• The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.

  Edward Jenks

  Country, Order, Land

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.

  Edward Jenks

  Believe, Men, Years

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Book, Reading, Rain

  Sandra Tsing Loh (2002). “A Year in Van Nuys”, Three Rivers Press

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• Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Music, Air, Light

  Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

  Mary Cantwell

  Music, Hymns, Listening

  Mary Cantwell (1992). “Manhattan Memoir”, Penguin Group USA

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• Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.

  Nora Waln

  Time, Flower, Fall

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• There's always been a women's movement this century!

  Mary Stott

  Movement

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• The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, proportion, colour and utility, and, furthermore, be capable of arousing feelings of grandeur, gaiety, sadness, wildness, domesticity, surprise and secrecy.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Sadness, Garden, Views

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• I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.

  Christa Wolf

  Self, Desire, Males

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• the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Lying, Ubiquity, Racism

  Patricia J. Williams (2016). “Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race”, p.68, Macmillan

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• So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.

  Susan Cooper

  Dark, Years, White

  Susan Cooper (2011). “The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels”, p.182, Candlewick Press

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• Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages. Babaji revealed to Lahiri Mahasaya: “The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples.

  Lahiri Mahasaya

  Yoga, Writing, Dark

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• Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.

  Michael Brune

  Technology, Energy, Middle

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• Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space Flight, Vision, Exploration

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• When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Kids, Helping Others, Thinking

  Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 16, 2012.

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• I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

  Hugh Hefner

  Mother, Thinking, Numbers

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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