Thousand Years Quotes

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.

The problem is we bear grudges that go a thousand years into the past. Really, I could find people who begrudge the Greeks for doing awful things to the Bulgarians more than a thousand years ago.

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

I believed that doing what the other person wanted was love. I did that, and for more than a thousand years I have regretted it. I don't want to repeat the same mistake.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.

I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

It'll be messy, but after a day you'll be zipping around as though you were a thousand years old again.

I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman who can curse your name.

You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.

Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years.

Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.