Thousand

Famous quotes containing the word thousand:

    The rumor of a great city goes out beyond its borders, to all the latitudes of the known earth. The city becomes an emblem in remote minds; apart from the tangible export of goods and men, it exerts its cultural instrumentality in a thousand phases.
    In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    You are a thousand times a properer man
    Than she a woman. ‘Tis such fools as you
    That makes the world full of ill-favored children.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    A tree may grow a thousand feet tall, but its leaves will return to its roots.
    Chinese proverb.