Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…

— Lord Byron

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

— Henry Waxman

One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular,…

— Dave Hunt

[My advice] will one day be found With other relics of 'a former world,' When this world shall be former, underground, Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted,…

— Lord Byron

One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is…

— Fred Hoyle

By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually…

— Max Barry

I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of…

— Betye Saar

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of…

— Bayard Taylor

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and…

— Aldo Leopold

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of…

— Jean Plaidy

“One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or…

— Patrice Pavis

The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution…

— Adrienne Rich

The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely…

— Alexey Leonov

Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by then, will…

— Josh Quittner