Small creatures Quote by Charles Dickens

“Came they, in their droves, one after the other, hundred after hundred, thousand after thousand, engulfing all before them, each line a merciless wave…

— A. H. Septimius

“it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.…

— Charles Dickens

“The earth of a hundred millennia ago was walked by at least six different species of man.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We were carried for many days in houses that went on wheels and flew along like birds. And now it seemed as if the…

— Claire Prentice

“crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year…

— Charles Dickens

“Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. What…

— Carl Sagan

“Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the ancient dance of numbers: two,…

— Mary Doria Russell

“The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity …”

— Emil Cioran

“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing…

— Hokusai

“But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“First thousand were an accident, Second thousand, a promise. Answer to traditional animosity, Antidote to doting prejudice.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“At the age of six, I was seized by the mania of drawing the shape of objects. By the age of fifty, I had…

— Anna Gavalda