#century

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#century #early #freedom #immigrants #jewish

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#century #culture #destroyed #emperor #essential

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#about #believe #elvis #elvis presley #his

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#abandonment #became #century #early #film

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#america #amity #century #community #concluding

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. ↗

— Saki

#eccentric #golden-afternoon #humor #saki #twentieth-century

Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#19th-century #about #anymore #back #book

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

#20th century #admiration #back #both #century

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#able #century #connect #deep #deep way

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. ↗

— Pete Hamill

#american #being #century #fifth #here