Best Centuries Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“We cannot fight just as Dalits. I understand for centuries people have fought each other. It is not easy to bring them together. But we have done this in U.P.”

“I am one of the hardest-hitting light-middleweights they've had for centuries.”

“The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius and Archimedes on ellipses would be used centuries later by Kepler for his theory of planetary motion.”

“The culinary world is a fascinating place that has been influenced over the centuries by culture, religion, fashion, war, art, science and, more recently, globalisation.”

“The illegal wildlife trade has an unacceptable human cost for those who have lived for centuries in harmony with wildlife.”

“Children are part of the natural pattern of life. For centuries people have been having children and going to work. You get on with it, that's what life's about.”

“For centuries, prosperity has been easy to define in material terms. At a personal level, by how much one earns; how much one has.”

“If you go back to the really long-run questions that interested me, the big question was why, over the centuries, the millennia, has growth been speeding up?”

“What we call endurance sport today, we've been doing for centuries with pilgrimages, walking across the earth towards some goal, which is not all-important, because it's the journey that matters.”

“Natalie Maines has a voice for the centuries.”

“There are players out there who want to dominate and keep their opponent sitting down. They want to make centuries and win frames at a single visit, and I like to see that.”

“Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.”

“Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived and breathed and sometimes worried about very different things and sometimes worried about the same things we do.”

“High-level political wives are by no means new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when patricians dominated British political life, it was common for politicians' spouses to play an active political role.”

“Over the centuries, close-knit tribes have played an important part in the cohesion of Libyan society.”

“Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange.”

“The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries.”

“When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.”

“We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.”

“Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.”

“If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.”

“For centuries, soup kitchens have been a way for local communities to offer a way of support, both nutritional and emotional to their less lucky neighbors.”

“We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.”

“When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.”

“To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.”

“In the 19th and 20th centuries we saw nature as something to use to our profit, but the attitude of man towards nature in the 21st century will be a bit different.”

“Parliament's centuries of history have been overwhelmingly dominated by men, but things are changing.”

“Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn't, it is far easier to disappear in Britain than in almost any other country in the world.”

“I love Texas itself. The landscape is remarkable. The combination of cultures here is incredible. And the history here is pretty remarkable, too, going back centuries.”

“Busta Rhymes has been around for centuries. He's one of the original vampires.”

“America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?”

“It has taken centuries to create the freest, fairest, most prosperous societies in the world, and there have been lots of studies about this.”

“It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.”

“Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.”

“The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.”

“The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.”

“I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin.”

“There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.”

“Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.”

“The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.”

“Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.”

“For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.”

“Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster?”

“With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.”

“Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.”

“For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.”

“For centuries, Tamil Nadu is a holy land of many religious scholars and saints who preached good things.”

“I love the challenges of, ultimately, the examination of what it is to be a human being in this world. I mean that's kind of what artists have been reflecting on for centuries and generations and we just keep getting more complex as a species. There's lots to mine.”

“The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.”

“I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.”

“Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.”

“Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'”

“I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.”

“In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.”

“Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.”

“Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.”

“For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours.”

“One of my most persistent, long-term fantasy wishes is not that I could fly or become invisible, but that I could make sound recording be invented decades or even centuries earlier than it was, so I could hear what people in the 1830s or 1750s actually sounded like.”

“I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.”

“Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.”

“We are competing against nations that think in terms of dynasties and centuries.”

“We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this spirit returns.”

“It took centuries to form the German order.”

“For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.”

“When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future.”

“Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.”

“I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.”

“For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.”

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.”

“I think massage is a very important part of life, which is present from centuries as an imminent part of India's tradition.”

“For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.”

“By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.”

“The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.”

“There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.”

“The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies and power of the Huns, Mongols had built the largest land empire in the history of the mankind.”

“I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.”

“During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.”

“I have a fascination for extra-judicial societies and underground cultures, and in situations where justice can only be found outside the law, and how these societies have evolved over the centuries.”

“When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.”

“Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.”

“Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.”

“Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.”

“Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.”

“Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.”

“There were centuries when civilization had no theater.”

“When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.”

“Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.”

“My particular pain is that the world of Jewishness that I identify with - the extremely assimilated, educated European and Russian Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries - is lost, and is not mourned enough.”

“In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.”

“Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.”

“If Sachin Tendulkar only thought of centuries, he wouldn't be the legend that he is.”

“Prayer, for centuries, has only ever been a way to make humans beings sit still, take stock of the human condition and hopefully try to do things a bit better.”

“We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.”

“Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.”

“The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.”

“Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.”

“I've seen that, over the centuries, India has still got its passion and its soul. Wherever you go, people have such inner strength and beauty.”

“No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.”

“For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.”

“It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.”