Quotes About 20th Century America

#1. In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.

Joshua Cohen

#2. I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'

Karen Abbott

#3. I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.

Robert Gober

#4. I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

Gay Talese

#5. The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

Charles A. Murray

#6. When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.

Jim Woodring

#7. Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Ken Burns

#8. The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

Carlos Fuentes

#9. America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

Barack Obama

#10. I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

G.W. Bailey

#11. Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

Winston Churchill

#12. The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

William J. Clinton

#13. I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

Nate Lowman

#14. I've always said that L.A. is the city of America's future. It is to the world what London was in the 19th century and New York in the 20th because of the growth of the Pacific Rim countries. We're the portal to the emerging world.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#15. Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

Pablo Picasso

#16. The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.

Stephane Hessel

#17. I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns.

Terry Teachout

#18. I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.

Davy Crockett

#19. The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.

Tom Brokaw

#20. The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

Chris Bohjalian

#21. With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.

Bernard L. Schwartz

#22. I am a lover of beauty, he of humanity. Each

Ted Chiang

#23. We have learned not to care about the state of that other place even as it burns or drowns.

Nayomi Munaweera

#24. No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

Antonio Tabucchi

#25. Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.

Barry Marshall

#26. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!

Archibald Marwizi

#27. The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

Adrienne Von Speyr

#28. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

#29. Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

Lillian Hellman

#30. Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.

Barbara Kingsolver

#31. An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is during times of economic stress (1930s, 1970s) that America has become more withdrawn.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#32. Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future.

Robert Kiyosaki

#33. I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

Sebastian Arcelus

#34. I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

Carolyn Parkhurst

#35. I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

Larry The Cable Guy

#36. I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.

Sarah Palin

#37. Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

Phil Gramm

#38. It was a love that was not a contract but an affection of the soul.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#39. 124. And whoever does righteous good deeds, male or female, and is a true believer in the Oneness of Allaah (Muslim), such will enter Paradise and not the least injustice, even to the size of a Naqeera (speck on the back of a date-stone), will be done to them.

Anonymous

#40. Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

Janet Napolitano