English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Thor Heyerdahl Quotes

But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.

Thor Heyerdahl

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky. Judith Rossner
Gaston Bachelard quote: "The words of the world want to make sentences."
The words of the world want to make sentences. Gaston Bachelard
Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table isno mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions. Richard Bach
And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on. Glenn Tipton
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. Alfred Day Hershey
Chris Cornell quote: "It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words..."
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you. Chris Cornell
Zack Wamp quote: "We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number."
We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number. Zack Wamp
We openthe halvesof a miracle, and a clotting of acidsbrimsinto the starrydivisions: creation'soriginal juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on Pablo Neruda
Shelley Fabares quote: "I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift."
I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift. Shelley Fabares
If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life–probably none of which is very important in the long run–to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God’s children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He’d like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don’t have time to make the effort to... Marvin J. Ashton
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake. Vince Gill
The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised. Ron Davies
Sallust quote: "Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old."
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old. Sallust
Then there is the tamarind. I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a "wire edge" that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said no, it will come off when the enamel does" -... Mark Twain
What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie. Cornelia Funke