Quotes About 100 Years

#1. If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.

Hod Lipson

#2. Will it matter In 100 years who was right and who was wrong in our political arguments in our great nation? What will matter will be the legacy that our diligent footsteps leave for all who come behind us to comple the work in preserving America ... which will always better humanity in the process!

Timothy Pina

#3. Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago.

Dallin H. Oaks

#4. It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

Robert Musil

#5. Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.

Pentti Linkola

#6. I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows
/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.

Allen Ginsberg

#7. In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Tom Stoppard

#8. Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Al Pacino

#9. With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

Jack White

#10. When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

Karl Lagerfeld

#11. 50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together.

Mark Bittman

#12. That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'

Richard Dean Anderson

#13. Clearly, if Confederation is to survive another 100 years, Canada must find a national esprit de corps. Cohesion cannot depend indefinitely on hating Toronto.

Eric Nicol

#14. In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

Reed Hastings

#15. The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

Erich Honecker

#16. If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.

Bill Walton

#17. Shale gas has provided the United States the opportunity to have 100 years of supply that is domestically produced. If we are going to develop natural gas from shale, it has to be done in a safe and responsible manner.

Ken Salazar

#18. What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.

John Updike

#19. You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.

James Baldwin

#20. I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

Charles Kuralt

#21. Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

Jonathan Kozol

#22. I believe that we are at or near the apex of a great civilization ... In 50-100 years, if we're a poor third to some countries in Asia, I wouldn't be surprised. If I had to bet, the part of the world that will do best will be Asia.

Charlie Munger

#23. Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

Peter Agre

#24. If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

Bob Dylan

#25. I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

Nancy Pelosi

#26. Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

Lamar Alexander

#27. I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.

Billy Crystal

#28. I'll believe I made it when I'm 100 years old, I'm still able to get work, and they're about to put me in a coffin, and I'll be like, 'Yeah, OK, it went all right.' But until then, I'm not saying it.

Timothy Simons

#29. Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.

James Taylor

#30. Those who claim to be shamans there (Old East-Block Countries) today are just trying to pick up those remnants that they can remember; or shards they can find; as there has been no practice of traditional shamanism in those Communist countries for over 100 years.

Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls

#31. I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

Simon Schama

#32. If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.

Sukant Ratnakar

#33. The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.

Emeril Lagasse

#34. If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.

Frank Pavone

#35. The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

Alex Morrison

#36. Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

Leo Szilard

#37. If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#38. Fact is, the first 100 years of our country's history were about who could build the biggest, most efficient farm. And the second century focused on the race to build factories. Welcome to the third century, folks. The third century is about ideas.

Seth Godin

#39. If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Mark Zuckerberg

#40. I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

Peter Greenaway

#41. Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

Daniel H. Wilson

#42. Salt is so common, so easy to obtain, and so inexpensive that we have forgotten that from the beginning of civilization until about 100 years ago, salt was one of the most sought-after commodities in human history.

Mark Kurlansky

#43. Don't ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe in the corner.

Jim Rohn

#44. I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close to putting something out there that gives a feeling of all-encompassing and joyous.

Daniel Radcliffe

#45. I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

Amos Oz

#46. Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.

Nancy Pelosi

#47. Still, February's departure remains worthy of note. This February was Washington's coldest in 36 years. Only three times in the past 100 years has the capital experienced a colder one.

Anonymous

#48. In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

Joseph Sobran

#49. It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

Salman Rushdie

#50. I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Sylvester Stallone

#51. 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

#52. I wake up in the morning and I still have a passion for what I do, and I'll be doing it when I'm 105, I'll be scribbling away. If it was 100 years ago I'd be sitting by the campfire, saying, "Have I got a story to tell you."

Jackie Collins

#53. I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

John Mackey

#54. Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Spencer Abraham

#55. A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

Neill Blomkamp

#56. Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.

Kate Winslet

#57. It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.

Juan Enriquez

#58. I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter.

Emma Watson

#59. This (Coley's toxins) is really an effective treatment and it an OUTRAGEOUS crime of the century that we at MSK were able to cure cancer a 100 years ago that they can't cure today.

Ralph W. Moss

#60. When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.

Andrew Wyatt

#61. Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years.

Eileen Myles

#62. I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

Catherine Opie

#63. I have $100 billion ... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime ...

Bill Gates

#64. I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

Krysten Ritter

#65. I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don't want you to think of me and feel sad.

Esther Earl

#66. The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

John F. Kennedy

#67. In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.

Lavinia Milosovici

#68. The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#69. The possibility of losing him is 100 years of solitude I don't want to imagine.

Tahereh Mafi

#70. I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films.

Emma Watson

#71. Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Brad Feld

#72. Although it is important to examine the consequences of today's actions far into the future, it is important not to confuse far future actions with what is done today. The impact of emissions that are made after 2100 has no bearing on what the world should do for the next 30 or even 100 years.

Robert O. Mendelsohn

#73. Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Frances Beinecke

#74. It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

John Hughlings Jackson

#75. I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

Renee Fleming

#76. "Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

Tom Clancy

#77. I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

Fiona Apple

#78. People don't get married just to have sex with each other. Not in the last 100 years or so. Even in England.

Ros Clarke

#79. I contend that the reason why America is not as happy as it was in 1950 or 1920 or whenever, 100 years ago, is because our priorities are wrong, but it has nothing to do with exploiting the planet and has everything to do with losing faith in God.

Glenn Beck

#80. When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#81. For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.

Anurag Kashyap

#82. We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.

Anne Dudley

#83. Pocahontas, look at me, I'd rather die tomorrow than live 100 years without knowing you.

John Smit

#84. The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.

Richard Alley

#85. It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

Edgerrin James

#86. This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.

Peter Brimelow

#87. Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or 100 years. If you look for a biological thread throughout science fiction, you can find it, but it's a very small percentage of the total. That's been changing in the last few years.

Paul Di Filippo

#88. I wish I had 100 years. 100 years I could give to you" - A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness

#89. It sounds stupid, but there's nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that's older than 100 years old. I think London - not to sound pretentious - like New York, it's a big melting pot for all things and it's just got this energy that you can't find anywhere else.

Christian Cooke

#90. I think you'd have to be a pretty brave man to say "never go out of style," but men's suiting has been relatively stable for 100 years now. The single-breasted, two-button gray flannel suit, you could've worn it in exactly the same cut, shape and fabric in 1910 as you wear it in 2010.

Patrick Grant

#91. If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

Suge Knight

#92. When I sit with my students and meditate with them, I channel the kundalini directly into them. I bring them to plane after plane of consciousness. What they would do in 100 years of meditation, I can do in an hour with them.

Frederick Lenz

#93. Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

Five For Fighting

#94. To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

Steve Gleason

#95. It's unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we've already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.

Nick Bostrom

#96. Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given.

Ansel Elgort

#97. Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

Jerry Saltz

#98. We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.

Neil Young

#99. If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

Cormac McCarthy

#100. It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

Benito Mussolini