Thousand Years Quotes

• If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Night, Stars, Farewell

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• And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more.

  Christina Perri

  Valentines Day, Love You, Heart

  Song: A Thousand Years, Pt. 2

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• And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Nice, Men

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Live Life, Men

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• Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.49, Delta

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• I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.

  Donald Miller

  Grateful, Moving, Responsibility

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers.  You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen.  The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back.  Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Home, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

  Olivia Wilde

  Hate, Thinking, Years

  Twitter post from May 14, 2011

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• In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

  Stefan Zweig

  Life, Regret, Years

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• Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Time, Hands

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, 17. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"

  Dexter Kozen

  Halloween, Years, Voice

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• Two seconds are a thousand years.

  Andre Kertesz

  Two, Years, Thousand

  André Kertész (1985). “Kertész on Kertész: a self-portrait”, Abbeville Pr

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• The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.

  Dr. John

  Years, Events, Determined

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• I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

  Cam Gigandet

  Years, Thousand, Stills

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• Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.

  Gerald Massey

  Christian, Jesus, Unique

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• Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Jesus, Years, Two

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.102, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?
  That depends.
  On what?
  On how I want to feel.

  Greg Egan

  Years, Doe, Want

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• In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

  Gary Snyder

  Years, Two, Giving

  Gary Snyder (1977). “The Old Ways: Six Essays”

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• The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Taken, Party, Cutting

  "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• ...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.

  Angela Carter

  Years, Long, One Day

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Soul, Cheerful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.42, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Time, Home, Winning

  Thomas Wolfe (2006). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said. "I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

  Cassandra Clare

  Years, Cooking, Jam

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Years, Two, Half

  "Fictional character: Galadriel". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• When I say that "l see God," I don't necessarily mean to say that when I chant I'm seeing Krishna in His original form when He came five thousand years ago, dancing across the water, playing His flute. Of course, that would also be nice, and it's quite possible too. When you become real pure by chanting, you can actually see God like that, I mean personally. But no doubt you can feel His presence and know that He's there when you're chanting.

  George Harrison

  Real, Nice, Mean

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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