Centuries Quotes

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The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and… — Tim Gunn
It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through… — Kim Stanley
I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry… — Stephen Moyer
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to… — Alexander Schmemann
Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had to have been… — Neal A. Maxwell
The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll. — Benjamin Disraeli
The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'? — Patch Adams
Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Milliseconds influence centuries. — Robert Cowley
The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets… — Dahlia Lithwick
If Jesus remained dead, how can you explain the reality of the Christian church and its phenomenal growth in the first three centuries of the… — Henry F. Schaefer, III
That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
...The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book entitled The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish could be used to cure… — Jeffrey Bland
The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War… — Haim Harari
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a… — William Irwin Thompson
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. — Stefan Zweig
It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target.… — Nils-Axel Morner
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. — Benjamin Franklin
The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which… — Unknown Author
You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries. — Garrett Fort
It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices… — Herman Melville
Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied… — Andrew Wiles
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to… — Wassily Kandinsky
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple… — Simon Barnes

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