Centuries Quotes

950 Centuries quotes by 728 unique authors

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people… — Jon Krakauer
Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and… — Edith Wharton
Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from… — Mitch Albom
If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago. — Heather Brewer
If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those… — Howard Zinn
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before… — Arthur Conan Doyle
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. — Frances Mayes
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000,… — Tom Wolfe
The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from… — Rick Riordan
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and… — Ahdaf Soueif
Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
That which doesn’t kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy. (Caleb) Yeah, and usually a lot of Tylenol. (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts… — John H. McWhorter
Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are--… — Walter de La Mare
As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when… — Denis Diderot
I feel like I’ve known you forever. Like I’ve held you in my heart for centuries. (Talon) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, ‘He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You told me once, long ago, to look into a mirror and see your face. I refused to then. But now Mnimi has forced me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two… — Alan Watts
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones,… — Henry Miller
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of… — Merlin Stone
We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected… — David Rockefeller
Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter… — Suzanne Collins
When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky — Jandy Nelson

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