“It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.”

“The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.”

“The blue dusk ran between the streets; my love was winged within my mind;
It left to-day and yesterday and thrice a thousand years behind.
To-day was past and dead for me for from to-day my feet had run
Through thrice a thousand years to walk the ways of ancient Babylon.”

“If only ten or twenty Negroes had been put into slavery, we would call it injustice, but there were hundreds of thousands of them throughout the country. If this state of affairs had lasted for two or three years, we could say that it was unjust; but it lasted for more than two hundred years. Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life.”

“Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!”

“Nationalism, then Islamism, both twentieth-century inventions, destroyed the Greek civilization in Egypt that had endured for three thousand years.”

“A corpse was far too easy a thing to rationalize. Christianity had been doing it for two thousand years.”

“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”

“The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.”

“What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.”