There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“When the world you're used to, that same old world you thought you knew so well, turns itself suddenly upside down, what… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“Every ritual repetition of the cosmogony is preceded by a symbolic retrogression to chaos. In order to be created anew, the old… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote: For him her… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to… — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
“Katie let the curtain fall back into place. Standing before the window, she felt herself let go of the old world and… — Rhiannon Frater Copy Share Image
“How can you make a fresh start in a New World when you are carrying with you on your boat all the… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
“Aiden was taught about the old world, the ways in which his ancestors and their nations lived. In those ‘grandest times’ it… — A.E. Shaw Copy Share Image
“What about you, Snipes?" Dunbar asked. "You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?" Snipes… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“The dawn will be upon us in a couple of hours. We need to leave this place." "I won't go with you,"… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“Those five characteristics are: 1. Reactivity: the vicious cycle of intense reactions of each member to events and to one another. 2.… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“The world remembers the battle ever since by the taxis. A hundred of them were already in the service of the Military… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“The proud tower built up through the great age of European civilization was an edifice of grandeur and passion, of riches and… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Keep struggling, o brave soldier - keep struggling till politicians become an extinct species and politics an extinct profession. The mission is,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
The cubism of Braque or Picasso, the dissonant compositions of Schoenberg or Stravinsky, the free-flowing and often erotic choreography of Isadora Duncan… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“Columbus led wooden sailing ships across an ocean, seeking a new world. Today we sail with ships of metal across the cosmic… — Daniel Arenson Copy Share Image
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“I like parents, old-school, old-world parents. So real. Just think of all they've seen in their lives. They were born in another… — Laleh Khadivi Copy Share Image
Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
“Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live… — Patrick Nowell-Smith Copy Share Image
If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer.… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
I AM NOT TRYNA BE IN THE WAY OF LOVE BUT I THINK LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP IS HOW MANY FEMALES AND MALES… — JASMINE WATKINS Copy Share Image
“I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“That’s what Old World love really is. To be so close to someone that our hearts are connected by a force stronger… — Eloise Dyson Copy Share Image
There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have… — Bat Masterson Copy Share Image
“[General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal… — Russell S. Bonds Copy Share Image
“We know the old world is collapsing, but the contours of the new world are not yet entirely clear. Some of the… — Reggie McNeal Copy Share Image
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
![“[General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal of Honor, or valor] smacked of Old World vanity, elitism, and snobbery, he also thought that such an award was entirely unnecessary.” quote by Russell S. Bonds](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0ca/russell-s-bonds-89935_american-civil-war_general-in-chief-of-the-army-lieutenant_1203312.jpg)
