Centuries Old Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

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
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
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
Itâ€™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
It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign. — Thor Heyerdahl
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
his voice was centuries old — Maggie Stiefvater
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
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
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
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: