“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.” — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings… — Sylvain Tesson Copy Share Image
Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important. — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant… — Maturin Murray Ballou Copy Share Image
They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat — Moliere Copy Share Image
Everything comes from your own heart. This is what one ancient called bringing out the family treasure. — Yuanwu Keqin Copy Share Image
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“Humanity is ancient And so is its wisdom too… Share in its brilliance in everything that you do!” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new! — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be… — Henry Gray Copy Share Image
An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
