"The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into the yesterday of the globe, far less touch the myriads of ages spread out beyond."

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Source : Hugh Miller (1857). “An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education”, p.441

Hugh Miller

#Yesterday Quotes #Years Quotes #Age Quotes

“So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.”

Source : "Live From Nintendo's E3 Briefing: More On Zelda, 3DS, Pikmin" by Luke Plunkett, kotaku.com. July 15, 2010.
“What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred miles on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.”
“I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.”
“I don't reflect much, unless I'm talking to the media. I have more of a 'Forward, march!' kind of attitude.”

Source : Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. December 8, 2009.
“Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.”
“Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.”

Source : Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.”
“I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.”

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