For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve? — Du Fu Copy Share Image
We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to… — Sunidhi Chauhan Copy Share Image
Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The Hindus have worshipped from ancient times the baby Krishna in the arms of Virgin Devaki just as the Roman catholics [sic]… — Swami Abhedananda Copy Share Image
In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Otter is the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species and its vulnerability to man's seemingly insatiable… — Virginia McKenna Copy Share Image
That culture is a a critical resource the organization ignores. Competely mystifying. The organization continues to act as if culture were dark… — Grant David McCracken Copy Share Image
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life. — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Rising Sun jostles hard to evaporate doom filled clouds;hovering ancient land.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard. — Vera Miles Copy Share Image
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn. — Nichiren Copy Share Image
We've all got to come together, and we've got to protect what's left of our ancient forests on this planet. — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is… — Li Shan Copy Share Image
There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
“There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. — Voltaire Copy Share Image