My hours are peaceful centuries.

“There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of…

— Erwin Chargaff

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

— Pico Iyer

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

— John Berger

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its…

— Nikola Tesla

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

— Celia Green

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

— Alan Paton

What if miliseconds influence centuries?

— Robert Cowley

These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's…

— Robert Charles Wilson

Truth takes no account of centuries.

— William Wordsworth

The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

— Theodore Zeldin

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

— Daisaku Ikeda