Famous quotes containing the words billion, light and/or years:
“Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.”
—John Lukacs (b. 1924)
“Haply your eye shall light upon some toy
You have desire to purchase.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)