Thousand Years Quotes

476 Thousand Years quotes by 371 unique authors

If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter… — Daniel Quinn
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today,… — Robertson Davies
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite.… — Richard Bach
Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand… — Scott Cunningham
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always… — George Bernard Shaw
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. — Marcus Aurelius
The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand years… — Michael Merzenich
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of… — Greg Egan
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need… — J. Michael Straczynski
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years. — Martha Graham
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to… — Wendell Berry
You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common… — Marcus Aurelius
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy — Bertrand Russell
If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives,… — Michelle Hodkin
Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's… — Paul Shepard
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand… — Victor Hugo
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all… — William Faulkner
Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out… — Pete Seeger
It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for… — Julian Casablancas
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not… — Gary Snyder
Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished.… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old. — Shelagh Delaney
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and… — Orson Pratt
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there… — George R. Stewart

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