A Quote by Will Durant

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

Will Durant

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Ages Between Ice Ice Age Interval

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Will Durant
American - Historian
November 5, 1885 - November 7, 1981

I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?

Larry the Cable Guy

When I'm not on the ice, I do interval work on the bike or the elliptical, trying to mimic a four-minute routine. But it doesn't come close.

Tessa Virtue

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

James Black

Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

George Kubler

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

George Jean Nathan

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

Al Bernstein

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Samuel Johnson

In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction.

Marie Lu

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

Sophie Irene Loeb

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

Sylvia Earle

It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.