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Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

Source: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“But we do need a breather. 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. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever it takes to break you.”

Thinking Years Asks Speak Sound Break Thousand Thousand Years Whatever It Takes

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was that? What was it that he had faith in? It wasn't that nothin' would change. Which is what you might think, I suppose. He had to know better'n that. I've thought about it a good deal. . . And I have to say that the only thing I can think is that there was some sort of promise in his heart. And I don't have no intentions of carvin' a stone water trough. But I would like to be able to make that kind of promise. I think that's what I would like most of all.”

Thinking Knows Men Years Heart Kind I Can Might Able Lasts Water Deals Promise Thousand Ten Stones Intention Thousand Years Hammers Chisels Trough

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did not occur as a result of the hunter-gatherers' elsewhere adopting farming; hunter-gatherers tend to be conservative.... Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers' outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture.”

“Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.”

Years Mother Fall Courses Left Thousand Raises Holes Thousand Years Fence

Book:Eggs

Source: Eggs

“From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.”

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. '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.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.”

Years Eye Thousand Passing Passings Thousand Years Time Passing Passing By

Book:Bayou Moon

Source: Bayou Moon

“On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.”

Want Years Stories Girl Boys Thousand Love Story This Day Thousand Years

Book:The best of Frederik Pohl

Source: The best of Frederik Pohl

“...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.”

Ifs Years Wells Long Hours Chance Millions Tomorrow One Day Thousand Hundred Chains Thousand Years Shaking Gamble Shackles One Chance

Book:Nights at the circus

Source: Nights at the circus

“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.”

Years Moments Home Time Winning Minutes Thousand Window Fruit All Time Forty Thousand Years Buzz Winning The Day

Book:Look Homeward, Angel

Source: Look Homeward, Angel

“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.”

Years May Said Thousand Eternal Cooking Fades Thousand Years Jam Will Herondale Incomparable Tarts Beauty Fades

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“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.”

Should Years Has Beens Two Lost Half Thousand Forgotten Myth Rings Legends Thousand Years Fellowship Of The Ring Lord Of The Ring Galadriel

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Years May States Form Change Hours Thousand Lays Ruins Scare Thousand Years Permanence

Author:Lord Byron

“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”

People World Years Has Beens Four Alive Dying Thousand Tough Theater Institutions Devoted Thousand Years

Book:Once There Was a War

Source: Once There Was a War

“Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.”

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song”

Ifs Knows Years Long Stills Religion Song Thousand Ten Storm Circles Thousand Years Unfinished Falcon

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.”

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