Centenary Quotes

Dr. Ramakrishnan addressing an audience of 3,000 at the university's Centenary Auditorium. (Venkatraman Ramakrishnan)
One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan. View quote
Hugh Jackman
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration. View quote
Howard Mumford Jones
Perhaps some day - say 1938, their centenary - they might be allowed to return together for a holiday, to see the mistakes of their own lives made clear in the light of the mistakes of their successors; and perhaps then, for the first time since man began his education among the carnivores, they would find a world that sensitive and timid natures could regard without a shudder. View quote
Henry Adams