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The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

The Golden Age of Secularism has passed.

The Golden Age was never the present age.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

The great coming to age of cable is really a beautiful thing. No commercials. It's like a small theater. It's a cinema on a TV screen.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career.

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

The happy problem of our time - longer life.

The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of any age, any religion, and without any philosophical predisposition.

The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.