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Thousand Years Quotes (page 8)

If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living. Meister Eckhart
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey of peace in old poems. Robinson Jeffers
A thousand years ago five minutes were. Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and. Infinite aftertime: above your head. They close like giant wings, and you are dead. Vladimir Nabokov
Terry Prachett quote: "Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six..."
Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend. Terry Prachett
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith. Richard Morris
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand..."
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hans Frank quote: "A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not..."
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. Hans Frank
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years..."
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will Durant quote: "Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours..."
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. Will Durant
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA. Olympia Dukakis
Shelagh Delaney quote: "Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand..."
Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old. Shelagh Delaney
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. Elizabeth II
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark quote: "I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years."
I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
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 his own government among the children of men. Orson Pratt
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 conscious software. Greg Egan

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