Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient. — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning… — Leah Cypess Copy Share Image
“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The Bible is an ancient text from an ancient context. We live thousands of miles and thousands of years away from that… — Randall Price Copy Share Image
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important… — James Christensen Copy Share Image
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the sky And there was a… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
