Ancient Quotes

The future has an ancient heart.

— Carlo Levi

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

— James Purefoy

The Family of Fools is ancient

— Benjamin Franklin

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

— Wilbur Ross

“Ancient of Days”

— Nabeel Qureshi

“It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill”

— Jude Watson

Ancient goblins, and warlords.

— Ramones

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

— James Russell Lowell

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

— Carol P. Christ

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

— Joseph Brodsky

The rich are always enamored of the ancient.

— Samuel R. Delany

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

— Heinrich Heine

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

— Voltaire

I was in Wolf's Head, one of the ancient eight.

— Leigh Bardugo

Love is no assignment for cowards.

— Ovid

Before the 80's everything seems ancient to me.

— Nikki Reed

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

— Robert Wilson

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

— Edward'O

The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

— Frans Lanting

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

— Anonymous

A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

— Matsuo Basho

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

— William Baziotes

Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad…

— William Butler Yeats

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

— Anonymous

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though…

— Osbert Sitwell

Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,'…

— Martha Beck

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same,…

— Richard M. Nixon

And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they won’t tell the children about the history of…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient…

— Robert Holdstock

Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to…

— Thomas Paine

A lot of church music really inspired me. A lot of ancient music that's made for God. If you get really into…

— Weyes Blood

It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as…

— Jack Kornfield

Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one…

— Dennis McKinsey

India is a country of 1.25 billion people. We can't run our country if we get worried about every small thing. At…

— Narendra Modi

This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be…

— Boyd K. Packer

The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each…

— George Washington

The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless…

— Sri Yukteswar Giri

The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the…

— William Wickenden

I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give…

— Charles Busch