Thousand years Quotes · Page 10

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

— Martin Luther

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

— James Henry Breasted

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.

— Anonymous

“He'd waited a thousand years for her, and she would know him for less than two weeks.”

— Trinity Faegen

A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.

— Anonymous

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

— David Koepp

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

— Terry Pratchett

“[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”

— Herman Melville

“In Europe, Murrow observed to his wife, people were dying and "a thousand years of civilization [were] being smashed" while America remained…

— Lynne Olson

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained,…

— Christo

“For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He…

— Norman O. Brown

I'm sure that there is no other person in this world whose heart is as beautiful as yours. After all, I know…

— Anonymous

The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We…

— Kevin Starr

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years…

— Paulo Coelho

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd…

— Douglas Coupland

Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause…

— Erwin McManus

“We smugly assume that we are the tallest humans to ever grace the earth. Quite the contrary. The Cro-Magnon people living thirty…

— Arianne Cohen

“And the stone table was between them, a barrier, but there could be no barrier to the smile that was her answer.…

— Laini Taylor

I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years,…

— Reza Aslan

“How far removed in time must an event be for us to remember it? How far for memory's longing to be no…

— Søren Kierkegaard

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with…

— Pope Francis

“The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I…

— William Blake

Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark; Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us? Jewelry…

— Qiu Jin

Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with…

— Dirk Wittenborn

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with…

— Henry David Thoreau

“days of the earliest Church? I ask you: Do you want things to go on as usual, or do you want to…

— R. T. Kendall

“At the time, I thought my colleague’s views sounded absurdly legalistic: if Christianity had lost all its living and breathing followers in…

— Philip Jenkins

“They have read your novel,’ Woland said, ‘and they said only one thing, that, unfortunately, it is not finished. So I wanted…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“The Greek historian Herodotus, writing over two thousand years ago, produced one of the first descriptions of one culture getting worked up…

— Caitlin Doughty

“For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“...Is there a more monstrous thought, a more convincing spectacle, a more patent affirmation of the impotence and madness of the brain?…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Chen pointed to the cub. "There's your brute." Then he pointed to the pups. "And there's your domestication. For the most part,…

— Jiang Rong

There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.

— Ann Coulter

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

— Dalai Lama

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.

— Kim Harrison

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

— Salman Rushdie

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

— Lord Byron

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

— Burton Cummings

“Oh the sweet air in Narnia! An hour's life there is better than a thousand years in Calormen.”

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Alexander Pope