Continents Quote by Nova Peris Download Open image “I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.” — Nova Peris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Continents Inspirational Qualified Years
Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades;… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being? — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe. — David McCallum Copy Share Image
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
“In the penultimate stages of writing this book, the date of the great exodus from Africa may have shifted more than 10,000 years earlier… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement. — Olivia De Havilland Copy Share Image
“A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and scholars are thinking now as they did a hundred years ago, when it comes to the age of civilizations; they can't even begin to concede that civilizations might have very old histories. The Earth is allowed to be… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life… — Tania Major Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilitie s and joys of fatherhood. Whether our… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little. — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that… — Raila Odinga Copy Share Image
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent,… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies in Morocco… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image