Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“Very curious, and the story that hangs round it will strike you as being more curious still." "These relics have a history… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great! — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
For a fact, the Christians stole Christmas. We don't mind sharing it with them, but we don't like this pretense of theirs… — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they… — David Korten Copy Share Image
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested,… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
“this, I believe, is when the holy relics at St Denis are usually taken down and exposed, bu all right-minded people, against… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of… — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge… — Albert Pierrepoint Copy Share Image
“Cassie Wright's largest audience, the only part of her audience still growing, is composed of sixteen-to-twenty-five-year-old men. These men buy her backlist… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the only recognized relics of yesterday's farmers are obsolete curiosities when the greatest relic, their philosophy of living, is seldom considered. — Eric Sloane Copy Share Image
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like… — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past, — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it's a relic, — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still… — Charles Kay Ogden Copy Share Image
“On Relics and Love: A Q&A with Natalie Brown, author of The Lovebird: http://www.everydayebook.com/2013/06/... ” — Natalie Brown Copy Share Image
When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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