Thousand Years Quotes - Page 11

• The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Party, Years

  "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches". Book by Robert Rhodes James, vol. 8, p. 8,326, 1974.

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• When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.

  Walter Cronkite

  Stars, Years, Ideas

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• Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivational, Book, Men

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• A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

  Mark Lawrence

  Years, Age, Wipe

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.137, Penguin

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• The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.

  Michael Coren

  Hate, Years, Two

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• The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Years, Yesterday

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

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• Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Years, Two, Doe

  Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

  David Bodanis

  Past, Oxygen, Years

  David Bodanis (1988). “The secret house: 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days”, Touchstone Books

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• Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Men, Years, Tomorrow

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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• If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, School, Kids

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• If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

  Mark Twain

  Grateful, Sleep, Eye

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• If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then have been morally right to have handed Hitler control of one of the most terrible weapons man has ever made? Would not that have been the one way to ensure that the thousand year Reich became exactly that? Would not unilateralism have given to Hitler the world domination he sought?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, Years, Allies

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• Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.

  Carlos Mencia

  Native American, Men, Thinking

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• Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  Frederick William Robertson (1850). “An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library”, p.22

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• As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

  Abigail Solomon-Godeau

  Plato, Mean, Years

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• Just as the Huns under their king Attila created for themselves a thousand years ago a name which men still respect, you should give the name of German such cause to be remembered in China that no Chinaman will dare look a German in the face.

  Wilhelm II

  Kings, Men, Years

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• I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that's a topic I've been chewing on for a few years; I would love to eventually work on and produce a book out of it.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Book, Thinking

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• Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name.

  Erwin McManus

  Christian, Past, Years

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2011). “Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within”, p.114, Thomas Nelson

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• Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

  Paul Sorvino

  Knights, Years, People

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• We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.

  Terence McKenna

  Fall, Reality, Engineering

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• What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Loyalty, Children, Years

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• I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Years, Needs

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• Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, Perfection, People

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.445

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• A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Years, Victory, Germany

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• I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Fall, Flames, Color

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