Famous quotes containing the words billion, light and/or years:
“Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.”
—John Lukacs (b. 1924)
“The light is like a spider.
It crawls over the water.
It crawls over the edges of the snow.
It crawls under your eyelids
And spreads its webs there
Its two webs.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“It takes ten years to grow good trees, but a hundred years to grow good people.”
—Chinese proverb.