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Quotes About Thousands

But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamique for their place, their time, and the lives of thousands of people?
~ Gregory David Roberts
I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.
~ Ray Davies
The world is on fire time is a bomb.Ten thousand years are not enoughWhen so much remains to be done
~ Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis
And there are genes that can be used to write the history of human migrations in the last few thousand years. From four billion years ago to just a few hundred years ago, the genome has been a sort of autobiography for our species, recording the important events as they occurred.
~ Matt Ridley
It made no sense, a lifespan of a few weeks did not add up to an annual migration of many thousand miles. How did they learn where to go?
~ Barbara Kingsolver
In his diary, Tudor noted that he had lost nearly four thousand dollars with his tropical misadventure.
~ Steven Johnson
Along the way, we have had some wonderful adventures and have met thousands of dedicated fans - indeed, many of them feel like family to us now.
~ John Prine
But, Mother, Katherine wouldn't care. And there'll be thousands of stitches in it." "And a thousand thoughts of love caught in the stitches, Grace.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
Thousands of snapshots are taken of JFK that day. Many of them remain hanging in the pubs and homes of Galway.
~ Bill O'Reilly
It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.
~ Jon Porter
If I can stay healthy, then I can wrestle every single week. I want to make every single town that I can, see the whole world, feel every crowd in every arena, and pull those emotional strings. I can't explain what it feels like to be in the center stage connecting with thousands of people, but I'm having the best time doing it.
~ Roman Reigns
I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and it's so much richer than you might get in an average Greek mythology text. I feel like an archaeologist - I'm dusting off these things that people have not seen for thousands of years and bringing them into the modern world.
~ Rick Riordan
Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. + Together, we sang.
~ Lady Gaga
Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it
~ Nicholas von Hoffman
It's always 'a thousand years' in stories, even if it was eight hundred ten or fourteen hundred eighty. 'A thousand years' is dramatic, and drama means more to people than accuracy, I'll tell you that for free. That's how you get throngs of obedient morons, while the educated have to work doubly hard to keep records accurate. Historians and librarians have saved more lives than Healers.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Thousands! Appah Rao's tone mocked the claim. You may have thousands, Colonel, but the Tippoo has tigers.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I live in a hive of darkness, and you are my mother, I told her. You are the mother of thousands.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
We can punish South Carolina as she deserves, and as thousands of people in Georgia hoped we would do," Sherman wrote. "I do sincerely believe that the whole United States, North and South, would rejoice to have this Army turned loose in South Carolina, to devastate that State in the manner we have done in Georgia.
~ Joseph Wheelan
WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.
~ Daniel Bryan
If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
~ Kallam Anji Reddy
Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.
~ Mohsin Hamid
I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.
~ Richard MacDonald
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
~ Branford Marsalis