Thousand Years Quotes - Page 11

• Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.

  Billy Crystal

  Jesus, Easter, Children

  Billy Crystal (2013). “Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?”, p.36, Macmillan

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• You can’t be a rational person six days a week and on one day of the week, go to a building, and think you are drinking the blood of a two thousand year old space god. That doesn’t make you a person of faith…, that makes you a schizophrenic.

  Bill Maher

  Drinking, Thinking, Blood

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• The world is on fire; time is a bomb.
  Ten thousand years are not enough
  When so much remains to be done

  Jeet Thayil

  Fire, Years, Bombs

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• Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is lost when a monarchy is abolished. If buckingham palace and windsor castle were transformed into museums, if one politician competed against another for president of the republic, Britain would be a sadder and less interesting place. Our politicians are not men such as could challenge more than a thousand years of history.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Men, Museums, Years

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• Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

  Edward Abbey

  Years, Anarchy, Thousand

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it.

  Thomas Paine

  Jesus, Believe, Character

  Thomas Paine (1858). “The works of Thomas Paine: a hero in the American revolution”, p.272

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• We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Years, Needs

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Two, Historical

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day.

  Robert E. Lee

  Prayer, Mean, Hands

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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Years, Humanity

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 50), 1986.

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• It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

  Johannes Kepler

  Years, Waiting, May

  "The Martyrs of Science; or, the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler" by David Brewster, (p. 197), 1841.

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• And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

  Vernor Vinge

  Thinking, Years, Optimism

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• Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, White Man, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.458, Harvard University Press

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• The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Christian, Years, Despair

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• One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

  Benito Mussolini

  Peace, War, Years

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• Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes the booby prize. . . . Man has asked for truth and the Church has given him miracles. He has asked for knowledge, and the Church has given him theology. He has asked for facts, and the Church has given him the Bible. This foolishness should stop. The Church has nothing to give man that has not been in cold storage for two thousand years. Anything would become stale in that time.

  Marilla Ricker

  Zero, Hero, School

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• The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.

  Guo Xiang

  Change, Tired, Years

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• No matter what the storm clouds bring, you can face your pain with courage and hope. For two thousand years ago-six hours, one Friday-Christ firmly planted in bedrock three solid anchor points that we can all cling to. For the heart scarred with futility, that Friday holds purpose. For the life blackened with failure, that Friday holds forgiveness. And for the soul looking into the tunnel of death, that Friday holds deliverance.

  Max Lucado

  Friday, Pain, Heart

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• The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it is. And since He has told us, very plainly, in the Holy Scriptures that it is several thousand years in age, and no more, that ought to settle all basic questions of terrestrial chronology.

  Henry M. Morris

  Stupid, Years, Scary

  "The Remarkable Birth of Planet Earth". Book by Henry M. Morris, p. 94, 1972.

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• A day to God is a thousand years,
  Men walk around with a thousand fears.
  The true joy of love brings a thousand tears,
  In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

  RZA

  Love, God, Song

  Song: A Day To God Is 1000 Years

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• In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Reality, Years, Effort

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• It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Men, Years, Stupidity

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• Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.

  Milan Kundera

  Song, Baby, Sleep

  "Fictional character: Tomas". "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", www.imdb.com. February 5, 1988.

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• Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One Self that is forever your own deepest being? Must you believe the lies of time? Must you swallow the insanity that One Spirit does not exist? Can you show me your Original Face, of which there is One and Only One in all the entire World?

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Believe, Self

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.342, Shambhala Publications

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• It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as Erwin (Terry Erwin, the Smithsonian Institute) estimates, then, working as they have in the past, insect taxonomists have ten thousand years of employment ahead of them. Ghilean Prance, director of the Botanical Gardens in Kew, estimates that a complete list of plants in the Americas would occupy taxonomists for four centuries, again working at historical rates.

  Richard Leakey

  Taken, Past, Garden

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