History Quote by Ibraheem Abbas

“In days of yore (about 100 years before olden days, but about 50 years later than ancient times),”

— Terry Pratchett

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of…

— Alma Katsu

“The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.”

— Helen Simonson

“Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles; humankind seemed…

— Liu Cixin

“Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.”

— Robin Hobb

“bound him for a thousand years.”

— The Biblescript

“Lawrence of Arabia said old and wise means tired and disappointed. He didn’t live long enough to know how right he was.”

— Joseph Wambaugh

“Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of…

— Oscar Wilde

“like when he had tried to explain how this God of theirs was somehow three gods and one at the same time. It left…

— Helene Wecker

“He may be old now, but he is still a hero in their eyes”

— Loretta Livingstone

“centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves,…

— Isaac Asimov

“He had the feeling that humanity was running in place. So many centuries and they had not learned anything new.”

— Oliver Pötzsch