Thousand Years Quotes
There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years, I still wouldn’t find enough of them to describe it.
The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done
Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.
Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.
From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.
I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.
I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.
I feel like I’m finally whole. I’m five thousand years old,” he rasped. “But the day you found me in the woods, that’s when my life started.
I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.
Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.
Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.
We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.
Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.
Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.
Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.
Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once.
Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.
A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.
I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander,” he whispered in her ear. “And you were worth every second of it.
So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever it takes to break you.
Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.
We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.
Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.
Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.
Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.
Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.
Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.
Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.
Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke.
Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.
We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.
The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.
I'm passionate about history and there's no more historic place than London. We're sitting on a thousand years of history and you can smell it as you're walking around the streets.
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.
I think that age is irrelevant. We're all pretty much spiritual beings - I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I'm ancient, like two thousand years old.
For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.