Century Quotes

Y.C. touched the lives of tens of thousands of children over the last half century. He was a great athlete himself, but you'd never know it to hear him talk. He was a role model for his students; he's probably taken more kids home after practice or school than anyone in history. - Bob Jenkins

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. - Gavin Bryars

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century. - Alan Dean Foster

Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone. - Jack Kroll

Would people still use the same demeaning language talking about European gypsies or immigrants? It is fundamentally an old, 19th-century throwback to the idea that that these people are somehow like our ancestors, or backward. It conveys that they are somehow not as intelligent as we are; that they haven't progressed as far as we have. It is fundamentally a colonial mentality. - Stephen Corry

World Wide Packets is extremely pleased to be providing North Kansas City with the flexible, scalable solution it needs to propel the city into the 21st century. The city realizes the importance of bringing the latest technologies to the community in order to generate economic growth and a greater quality of life, and World Wide Packets' proven Carrier Ethernet solutions are allowing just that. - Dave Curry

Words are no longer enough. It is time for action. This is the first genocide of the 21 st century. The world has said, 'Never again.' Those words must mean something. - Jim McGovern