Five Thousand Quotes

68 quotes by 62 authors

We all know that something is eternal. And it ainâ€™t houses and it ainâ€™t names, and it ainâ€™t earth, and it ainâ€™t even the stars… — Thornton Wilder
People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience,… — Jonathan Stroud
You donâ€™t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, thatâ€™s right.… — Chris Rock
I held out a lead figurine of Hadesâ€”the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated. "I donâ€™t play… — Rick Riordan
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our… — Edward Abbey
We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring… — Douglas Adams
All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike… — Ken Kesey
The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and… — Terry Pratchett
One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquidâ€”Greek fire, one of the most dangerous magical… — Rick Riordan
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our… — Jane Austen
Here. Have a Coke. Thatâ€™s good for a sore throat, right?â€ â€œGood for everything,â€ Shane croaked, and took the extended cold can with good grace.… — Rachel Caine
I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something. — David Levithan
What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates? — Nora Roberts
I feel like Iâ€™m finally whole. Iâ€™m five thousand years old,â€ he rasped. â€œBut the day you found me in the woods, thatâ€™s when my… — Larissa Ione
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a… — Richard Bach
China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the… — Chiang Kai-shek
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so… — Joseph C. Lincoln
That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain… — Christo
There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one… — Edward Ball

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