Famous quotes containing the words thousand year, thousand, year and/or reign:
“One man’s antinomy is another man’s falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“One good deed dying tongueless
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that;
Our praises are our wages.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“And year by year our memory fades
From all the circle of the hills.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“See how peaceful it is here. The sea is everything. An immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will.... Think of it. On the surface there is hunger and fear. Men still exercise unjust laws. They fight, tear one another to pieces. A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns. Here on the ocean floor is the only independence. Here I am free.”
—Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)