Late Nineteenth Century

Famous quotes containing the words nineteenth century, late, nineteenth and/or century:

    “The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “One who does not study hard when young will find it too late for regret when old.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “... the nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Not.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “We have yet to deal successfully with American transraciality in real terms, as we have failed to redefine race in light of the modern, twenty-first century progress of human kind.”
    —Virginia Hamilton (b. 1936)