--- title: "1 Threw Gears Quotes By Ian McDonald" description: "1 Threw Gears quotes by Ian McDonald. Plus more from Ian McDonald and more Threw Gears sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/ian-mcdonald-14570_fallibility_we-were-young-and-thought-we-were-invinc_1352541.jpg" --- > [“We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/we-were-young-and-thought-we-were-invincible-and-we-threw-ourselves/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/ian-mcdonald-14570_fallibility_we-were-young-and-thought-we-were-invinc_1352541.jpg) ## More by Ian McDonald > [“Najia can feel yts subdermal activators against her forearm. Not man not woman not both not neither. Nute. Another way of being human, speaking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/najia-can-feel-yts-subdermal-activators-against-her-forearm-not-man/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“Is this a Kurdish thing?’ ‘What?’ ‘Being deliberately contradictory?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/is-this-a-kurdish-thing-what-being-deliberately-contradictory/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“And how did you find the East?’ ‘It’s a shit-hole. But it’s our shit-hole.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/and-how-did-you-find-the-east-it-s-a-shit-hole-but-it-s-our-shit-hole/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“A joyful task,’ he says and she realizes that he welcomes the idea of years of searching, tile by tile, inscription by inscription, cornice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/a-joyful-task-he-says-and-she-realizes-that-he-welcomes-the-idea-of/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“It's the superhero problem . . . .Superpowers make everything personal. Batman versus Joker. Fantastic Four versus Galactus. The Big G might be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/it-s-the-superhero-problem-superpowers-make-everything-personal/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“Water splashes and runs in a film across the glass floor suspended above the mosaics. The Hacı Kadın hamam is a typical post-Union fusion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/water-splashes-and-runs-in-a-film-across-the-glass-floor-suspended/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“Marcelina loved that miniscule, precise moment when the needle entered her face. It was silver; it was pure. It was the violence that healed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/marcelina-loved-that-miniscule-precise-moment-when-the-needle-entered/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“If there is one thing will kill Turkey,’ she would say, ‘it is a famine of ideas.’ No one in her coterie dared mention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/if-there-is-one-thing-will-kill-turkey-she-would-say-it-is-a-famine/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/the-geek-of-the-earth-are-a-tribe-and-they-are-mighty/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“In our five thousand years of civilization, our history has often been the handmaid of geography. We lie exactly midway between the North Pole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/in-our-five-thousand-years-of-civilization-our-history-has-often-been/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“I do rather like birds,’ Abdullah Unul says. ‘They’re busy, active little things. They make do. Have you ever thought, if Istanbul were to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/i-do-rather-like-birds-abdullah-unul-says-they-re-busy-active-little/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“The army doctor who had patched up his hands and examined him after the rescue at Kayişdaği told him a story about the Mevlana,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/the-army-doctor-who-had-patched-up-his-hands-and-examined-him-after/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“This is always always always what she wished a bazaar to be. Demre, proudly claiming to be the birthplace of Santa Claus, was direly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/this-is-always-always-always-what-she-wished-a-bazaar-to-be-demre/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [“It is a fake, but a good fake. Turkey is the land of the masterful fake. But it is far far from that hateful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/it-is-a-fake-but-a-good-fake-turkey-is-the-land-of-the-masterful-fake/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) > [In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/in-the-age-of-kali-the-meek-and-helpless-will-be-preyed-upon-without/) [Ian McDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcdonald/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/threw-gears/ian-mcdonald/#itemlist", "name": "1 Threw Gears Quotes By Ian McDonald", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ian McDonald" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcdonald/we-were-young-and-thought-we-were-invincible-and-we-threw-ourselves/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/ian-mcdonald-14570_fallibility_we-were-young-and-thought-we-were-invinc_1352541.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/ian-mcdonald-14570_fallibility_we-were-young-and-thought-we-were-invinc_1352541.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/ian-mcdonald-14570_fallibility_we-were-young-and-thought-we-were-invinc_1352541.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground…” — Ian McDonald", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/threw-gears/ian-mcdonald/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/threw-gears/ian-mcdonald/", "name": "Threw Gears Quotes by Ian McDonald", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/threw-gears/ian-mcdonald/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/ian-mcdonald-14570_fallibility_we-were-young-and-thought-we-were-invinc_1352541.jpg" }, "description": "1 Threw Gears quotes by Ian McDonald. 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