Centuries Quotes

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. - William Irwin Thompson

Whoever turns aside from it, he shall surely bear a burden on the day of resurrection / Abiding in this (state), and evil will it be for them to bear on the day of resurrection; / On the day when the trumpet shall be blown, and We will gather the guilty, blue-eyed, on that day / They shall consult together secretly: You did tarry but ten (centuries). - Quran

Who is the stranger... that can form an adequate conception of the extent of its primeval woods-of the glory of those columnar trunks, that for centuries have waved in the breeze? - John James Audubon

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball. - Andy Pick

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. - Chinua Achebe

What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries. - Martin C. Smith

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today. - Leonid I. Brezhnev

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. - Terri Windling

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. - Boris Pasternak