Eighteen Thousand Years

Famous quotes containing the words eighteen, thousand and/or years:

    “I lived in Judæa eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “What will our children remember of us, ten, fifteen years from now? The mobile we bought or didn’t buy? Or the tone in our voices, the look in our eyes, the enthusiasm for life—and for them—that we felt? They, and we, will remember the spirit of things, not the letter. Those memories will go so deep that no one could measure it, capture it, bronze it, or put it in a scrapbook.”
    —Sonia Taitz (20th century)