Thousand Years Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Race, Years, Land

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Years, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

  Will Durant

  Time, Years, Twenties

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• We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

  Winston Churchill

  Rivers, Blood, Years

  "Ambition for Europe" broadcast, February 14, 1948.

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• A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Years, Scare

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• Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Years, Two

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• The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

  Bono

  Christian, Powerful, Ideas

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• I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Memories, Years, Thousand

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.76, Wesleyan University Press

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• The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Technology, Years, Machines

  1880 TheWanderer and His Shadow, aphorism 278.

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• You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

  Salman Rushdie

  Years, Ideas, Modern

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• So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so ready the other day, Had a real foretaste of eternity In my guts. Spoonfeeding me yet another sip from life's cup. I don't want it, won't take any more of it. Let me throw up. Life is medium rare and good, I see, And the world full of soup and bread, But it won't pass into the blood for me, Just goes to my head. It makes me ill, though others it feeds; Do see that I must deny it! For a thousand years from now at least I'm keeping a diet.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Real, Cutting, Blood

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter W. Arndt (1989). “The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography ; Translated by Walter Arndt ; Foreword by Cyrus Hamlin”, p.25, UPNE

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• We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again." I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries," Garion said glumly. Oh, no," Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. "Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

  David Eddings

  Adventure, Thinking, Years

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• We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

  Donald Hall

  Men, Years, Shining

  Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Years, Hatred, Alive

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• We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN

  Thornton Wilder

  Stars, Years, Play

  Thornton Wilder (1957). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Doctors, Hair, Cells

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• So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.

  Wendell Berry

  Years, Practice, Two

  Wendell Berry, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”

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• While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

  John Adams

  Government, Years, Political

  "An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840". Book by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley, 2010.

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• To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

  Robert Harris

  Girlfriend, Years, Sides

  Robert Harris (2008). “The Ghost”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Power, Hands, Years

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• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Years, Hearing

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.63, NYU Press

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• Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Years, Printing, Century

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.

  Lewis Thomas

  Years, Covering, Earth

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

  Stacy Schiff

  Years, Voice, Finals

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• I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

  Carl Sandburg

  Years, People, Strange

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

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