Billion Years

Famous quotes containing the words billion years, billion and/or years:

“Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production—only to produce a race of bed-wetters!”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

“Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.”
—John Lukacs (b. 1924)

“I see the callus on his sole,
The disappearing last of him
And of his race starvation slim,
Oh, years ago—ten thousand years.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)