Ancient Quotes · Page 18

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

— Anne Rice

... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart.

— Samuel Florman

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so…

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

— William Shakespeare

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

— Len Wein

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

— Shan Sa

[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France…

— George Lucas

The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being.…

— Tertullian

While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone…

— Tim O'Reilly

If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape…

— Jack Handey

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted…

— Mark Kingwell

“When we speak of ancient times, Rud Elalle, we find in our words things far nearer to hand, and all those emotions…

— Steven Erikson

In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass…

— Henry David Thoreau

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

— Norman Borlaug

It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever…

— Amelia B. Edwards

Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark…

— Lahiri Mahasaya

South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,…

— Amartya Sen

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies.…

— Henry Louis Gates

Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis…

— Madeline Miller

Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to…

— Jacques Ellul

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our…

— John Frederick Nims

Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism…

— Camille Paglia

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

— Winston Churchill

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

— Brennan Manning

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

— Warren E. Burger

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

— Sulla

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

— Anonymous

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

— Terry Pratchett

Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

— Zahi Hawass

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

— John F. Kennedy

Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.

— Anonymous

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

— Augustus William Hare

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

— Robert Downey, Jr

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

— Steven Pressfield

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify…

— Arthur Helps

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

— David Bowie