Centuries

Famous quotes containing the word centuries:

    Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.
    Edwin Markham (1852–1940)

    Let these memorials of built stone music’s
    enduring instrument, of many centuries of
    patient cultivation of the earth, of English
    verse ...
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave—a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of man, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown.—And we—we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)