“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
Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets. — Rumi Copy Share Image
It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars! — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim… — Ray Manzarek 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
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
There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In our hearts there burns a fire... That burns all veils to their root and foundation When those veils have been burned… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for ways to explore the politics of the everyday. For me, the proverbs were a way of bringing in… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These… — Dan Brown 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
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
No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“They were bound by the most ancient law of all. He had fought and killed for her. She was his.” — Lisa Marie Rice Copy Share Image
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity. — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad… — William Butler Yeats 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 true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism. — Edward'O Copy Share Image
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
