Ancient Quotes · Page 20

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old…

— Anonymous

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

— Bob Dylan

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

— Audre Lorde

I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and…

— John Lasseter

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

— Nathalia Crane

The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest...

— Charles Tennyson Turner

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

— H. P. Lovecraft

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient…

— Ray Bradbury

I love playing in Japan! It's always like being in the ancient past and the future at the same time. And the…

— Lisa Loeb

The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the…

— Chick Corea

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and…

— William Winwood Reade

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You…

— Richard Dawkins

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]…If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the…

— Dave Barry

The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as…

— Barack Obama

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and…

— Camille Paglia

Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one…

— Simone Weil

“It is one thing for modern educated people to feel they must believe these old stories as factual when science proves otherwise.…

— Robert M. Price

A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their…

— Gayl Jones

Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian…

— Alison Lurie

He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always…

— Dan Brown

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the…

— John Szarkowski

The Ancient One, as you know, is the master, is the Sorcerer Supreme, and [Doctor] Strange comes to learn how to heal…

— Tilda Swinton

There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty…

— Frank Herbert

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

— Paul Beatty

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

— Michel de Montaigne

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

— Aristophanes

The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.

— A. A. Gill

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

— Confucius

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

— Laozi

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies

— Paulo Coelho

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

— Henry David Thoreau

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

— Rick Riordan

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

— Tacitus

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

— Goldwin Smith

I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.

— Mario Botta

“everything in the room felt eerily advanced and ancient at the same time.”

— Hugh Howey

What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass.

— Nora Roberts