Millennia Quotes

91 Millennia quotes by 81 unique authors

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. — John Barth
What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few… — Jeanette Winterson
Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to… — Terry Goodkind
As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them… — Mark Helprin
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance… — Carl Sagan
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the… — Elizabeth Kostova
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided… — Terry Pratchett
In so many millennia, the humans never did figurs love out. How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how… — Stephenie Meyer
He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He’d never had to… — Gena Showalter
What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of… — Jeanette Winterson
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart,… — John Green
Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents.… — Rick Riordan
I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity… — Christopher Paolini
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia."… — Orson Scott Card
Think about Isis,” Jaz repeated. “And Sadie…there is a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of… — Rick Riordan
It is true I do not like fire. But Leo Valdez's flames are not strong enough to trouble me." Somewhere behind Hazel, a soft, lyrical… — Rick Riordan
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. — Colman McCarthy
What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than… — Paul Johnson
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think… — Nicholas A. Christakis
In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much… — Robert Fogel
If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force… — Pope Benedict XVI
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years. — Steven Pinker
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has,… — Simon Schama
Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely… — Sherwin B. Nuland

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