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Centuries Quotes (page 38)

H. L. Mencken quote: "For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable..."
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. H. L. Mencken
Sid Meier quote: "We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also..."
We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others. Sid Meier
Richard Meier quote: "Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a..."
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. Richard Meier
If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education. Ken Mehlman
"Indian policy" has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century. Russell Means
I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues. James Meade
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. Walter Russell Mead
Margaret Mead quote: "Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you..."
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. Margaret Mead
I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves. Jon Meacham
Alexander McQueen quote: "When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first..."
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. Alexander McQueen
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. Marshall McLuhan
In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry. Mark Hyman
Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mark E. Hyman

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