A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago. — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
“Throughout centuries, there are those who have risked new roads led by nothing except their own vision” — Joel Copy Share Image
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries. — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When we used to play, we thought no one can break Sunil Gavaskar's record. No one could think about 50 Test centuries… — Kapil Dev Copy Share Image
Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Minutes turn into hours that add up to days amounting to weeks that become months melting into years accumulating for decades to… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The opportunity to glimpse people who'd been born long before her, sometimes centuries before, was one of the rewards of Nora's job.… — Becky Wade Copy Share Image
“More than two thousand five hundred years ago. We have no way of knowing who painted this wall, but he speaks to… — Lillian Marek Copy Share Image
Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it's important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is… — John Drane Copy Share Image
As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient… — Mark Hyman Copy Share Image
“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“In the last Century more amazing things were found out than in any Century before. In this Century hundreds of things still… — Francis Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Imagine the terrestrial timespan as an outstretched arm: a single swipe of an emery-board, across the nail of the third finger, erases… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
