Ancient Quotes · Page 13

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

— Fernand Braudel

It Is Said Some Lives Are Linked Across Time Connected By Ancient Calling That Echoes Through The ages…

— Paritoshik Sharma

The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known.

— Elliott Abrams

By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.

— Yvor Winters

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

— Oriana Fallaci

I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient.

— Ellen Ullman

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

— Gary Wolf

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

— Leigh Hunt

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've…

— Nicolas Cage

He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except…

— Leon M. Lederman

Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have…

— Allan Boesak

In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come…

— Laozi

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed…

— Leo Rosten

In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one…

— Moliere

Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves…

— Anna Halprin

Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it…

— Jonathan Gottschall

The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the…

— John Allen Fraser

I believe the word "infidel" is not particular to any religion. I believe we are all created in the image of God,…

— Todd Rundgren

The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for…

— Tony Campolo

An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more…

— Thomas Moore

Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he…

— Robert J. Sawyer

We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless…

— Pope Francis

Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.

— Subramanian Swamy

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

— Caroline Paul

O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

— Du Fu

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

— Erykah Badu

We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.

— Frank Delaney

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

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

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

— Alan Bennett

Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

— Edmund Burke

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

— Guru Nanak

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

— Victoria de los Angeles

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the…

— Thomas Hobbes

“The ancient city, like all human society, had ranks, distinctions, and inequalities.”

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges