Either you are a part of my future, or a relic of the past.

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

— John Hodgman

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

“He that looks for urns and old sepulchral relicks, must not seek them in the ruins of temples, where no religion anciently placed them.…

— Thomas Browne

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into…

— Anne Waldman

No other foreskin could have caused such trouble

— Anonymous

“Behind them all, carried upon the bed of an enormous carriage with thirteen sets of iron-banded wheels, nestled within a casement crafted from the…

— C.L. Werner

“The only relic from another life.”

— V.E. Schwab

“Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.”

— Toba Beta

“Starbreeze doesn't rest, doesn't sleep and can hear anything carried on moving air. It'd make her the perfect spy, except that most of what…

— Benedict Jacka

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

— Emily Bronte

“Choking back emotion, I turned my eyes to the ground. "I don't want to say good-bye." "Then don't." If only it could be true.…

— Renee Collins

“So, I'm no more then a stolen relic, locked up, here, until you might have use of me?!”

— Loki Laufeyson

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

— John Paul Stevens