Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction… — Doug Graham Copy Share Image
When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Seven Cities was an ancient civilization, steeped in the power of antiquity, where Ascendants once walked on every trader track, every footpath,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife, Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have place Amid the tumult of reverberant… — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
“In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town… — Giambattista Valli Copy Share Image
We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled… — George Will Copy Share Image
We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
For ages the world has been living by the stupidity of an old Roman adage that says if you want peace, prepare… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
I believe that a woman should always remain a woman and nothing feminine should be alien to her. At the same time,… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
[The Golden Notebook] was not a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain… — Daphne Sheldrick Copy Share Image
From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16).… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia. While the most sought-after are undeniably… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image