Centuries Old Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a…
— Paul Davies
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices…
— Michael Parenti
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Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens,…
— Paulo Coelho
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It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less…
— Daniel Pipes
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It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above…
— John Nelson Darby
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There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When…
— David Abram
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This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in…
— James Henry Breasted
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun…
— John Muir
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We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater…
— Romeo LeBlanc
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The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives…
— Vladimir Putin
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Well, what are we waiting for? ...She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.
— Donita K. Paul
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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
— Umberto Eco
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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
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his voice was centuries old
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing…
— Dave Barry
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Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing…
— Dave Barry
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The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
— Vladimir Putin
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Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide…
— Ted Danson
Who Wrote These Centuries Old Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Centuries Old Quotes as follows: