From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open. — Eugene O'Neill 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
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government. — Michael Ledeen Copy Share Image
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
“Throughout centuries, there are those who have risked new roads led by nothing except their own vision” — Joel 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
The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller -… — Robert Fogel 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
The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“I see a cathedral, for instance, one that’s stood for centuries and I marvel and I wonder... How many people passed through… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
“Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; to age in soul and see our beloved… — H. Rider Haggard 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
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
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. — Mark Twain 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
