a thousand thousand QUOTES

1 " The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I. "

― Samuel Taylor Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

2 " I know that you are a mere flea! I know that you need only be squashed to be done away with! I know that I have fought this same battle a thousand thousand times before...but, perhaps this time I can crush you like the insect you are! "

― Marv Wolfman , Fantastic Four: In Search of Galactus

3 " The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present. "

― Andrew Levkoff , The Other Alexander (The Bow of Heaven, #1)

4 " There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient "

― Marilynne Robinson

5 " Who didn’t exist at the convergence of a thousand thousand stories? "

― Garth Risk Hallberg , City on Fire

6 " Gaia giveth even as she taketh away.

The warming of the global climate over the past century had melted permafrost and glaciers, shifted rainfall patterns, altered animal migratory routes, disrupted agriculture, drowned cities, and similarly necessitated a thousand thousand adjustments, recalibrations and hasty retreats. But humanity's unintentional experiment with the biosphere had also brought some benefits.

Now we could grow oysters in New England.

Six hundred years ago, oysters flourished as far north as the Hudson. Native Americans had accumulated vast middens of shells on the shores of what would become Manhattan. Then, prior to the industrial age, there was a small climate shift, and oysters vanished from those waters.

Now, however, the tasty bivalves were back, their range extending almost to Maine.

The commercial beds of the Cape Cod Archipelago produced shellfish as good as any from the heyday of Chesapeake Bay. Several large wikis maintained, regulated and harvested these beds, constituting a large share of the local economy.

But as anyone might have predicted, wherever a natural resource existed, sprawling and hard of defense, poachers would be found. "

― Paul Di Filippo , Wikiworld

7 " This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive! "

8 " This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive! "