Million Years

Famous quotes containing the words million and/or years:

    “I have at last, after several months’ experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert—a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow,
    Came that “Ave atque Vale” of the poet’s hopeless woe,
    Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen hundred years ago,”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)