“These relics have a history then?' 'So much so that they are history.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. — Heinrich Schliemann Copy Share Image
My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of… — Rose Quiello Copy Share Image
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented -… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should… — John Milton Copy Share Image
She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all!… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics:… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
He is the mongrel, he wants it all, He lives for relics, hang on the wall. — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past. — Wladyslaw Bartoszewski Copy Share Image
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