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When John Kennedy was running for president he came to my neighborhood. It was the hottest day in a century, it was like 9,000 degrees. People came from all over Manhattan to my neighborhood to see this guy who talked about my country, and my part...

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about country, things, day, people

I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

Quote by Geri Halliwell about word

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

Quote by Jim Fowler

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about time, day, order, idea, people

Without a song, each day would be a century.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about day

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times, i always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Quote by Margaret O'Brien about children, old

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Quote by Walter Pater about age, art, magic, olderness

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Quote by Walter Pater about christianity, old, religion

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about victims, cruelty, human imperfections

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

Quote by Ron Paul about politics, war

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

Quote by Li Peng about history, conflict

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

Quote by Li Peng about aspiration, country, friendship, common sense, beginning

In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international...

Quote by Li Peng about country, numbers, order, work

When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.

Quote by Li Peng about politics

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own...

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about art, faith, ability, virtue, magic, nothing

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau about earth, history, human imperfections

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Quote by Johannes Vilhelm Jensen about literature, evolution, literary critic, philosophy, work

My anxiety poem I write a poem today it will die tomorrow. It rises on its shivering feet of words it catches my attention and pulse as a living creature in another century - higher, unborn - and rises up, upper and upper, from...

Quote by Olimpiu Nusfelean about poetry, silence, attention, common sense, sense, word, death

What angel saves, /strong> What saves angel, in century, the rose from neutral coloring, I still know. Beyond, I do not know the ritual: what angel saves neurosis when the tears, in harps, are passing a blood as the one from tarnished...

Quote by Serban Foarta about poetry, angels, tears, blood, flowers, grace

There are not enough money in entire century for acquiring dignity.

RQuote by Renata Verejanu about dignity, money