Centuries Ago Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach… — Khalil Gibran
Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and the world, the… — Pope John Paul II
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward… — John Templeton
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people,… — Ronald Reagan
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things,… — Klaus Kinski
Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps,… — Julian Barnes
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We… — Barack Obama
The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the… — Joseph J. Romm
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it… — Clive Bell
Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were… — Christopher Alexander
There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are such fragile creatures… — Pam Houston
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some… — Heinz Pagels
History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent… — Robert Jensen
The fact that science led me to spiritual insight is appropriate because the latest discoveries in physics and cell research are forging new links between… — Bruce H. Lipton
When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine Michelangelo living five… — Wayne Dyer
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. — Alberto Moravia
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago? — Alan Lightman
There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India discovered it a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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

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