Centuries Long Quotes

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently," but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.

It took centuries to form the German order.