Ancient Quotes · Page 11

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

— George Takei

To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies

— Paulo Coelho

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

— Henry David Thoreau

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

— Rick Riordan

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

— Laozi

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

— Tacitus

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us…

— John Dewey

The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into…

— Patricia Hampl

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the…

— Tom Chatfield

“The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us;…

— John O'Donohue

The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize…

— James Risen

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging…

— John Steinbeck

I've been able to dig deeper into awareness of my own sinfulness, and take baby steps toward spiritual healing. I'm able to…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama…

— David Frawley

Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through…

— Khalil Gibran

Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and…

— H. Rider Haggard

You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with…

— Doug Peacock

Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian…

— Tim LaHaye

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close…

— Gail Ann Dorsey

Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed…

— Frederick Soddy

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from…

— Slavoj Žižek

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

— Goldwin Smith

“everything in the room felt eerily advanced and ancient at the same time.”

— Hugh Howey

I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.

— Mario Botta

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

— Alan Rickman

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

— John Webster

What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass.

— Nora Roberts

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?

— Frederick Lenz

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

— Alan Titchmarsh

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

— Margaret Atwood

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

— Ambrose Bierce

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

— Emi Fontana

Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.

— Dan Brown

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

— Jonathan Swift

Ancient Egyptian culture was so enduring. It went on for thousands of years.

— Josh Gates