Ancient Quotes · Page 20

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

— A. A. Gill

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

— Margaret Atwood

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

— Alan Titchmarsh

God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?

— Frederick Lenz

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

— Ambrose Bierce

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

— Emi Fontana

Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.

— Dan Brown

There are so many previously unknown sites and structures all over the world. And I think most importantly what satellites help to…

— Sarah Parcak

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

— Jack Handey

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

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

— Mark Kingwell

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

— George Lucas

I hope to bring ancient philosophy and new scientific thinking together, to provide a new perspective of nature, especially the relationship between…

— Liu Dan

We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Tertullian

If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny…

— Pat Schneider

“What is this power of words? In our everyday routine, we use words to carry out all our transactions. If someone praises…

— Harsha Yardi

Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as…

— Tom Robbins

My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had…

— Nick Hornby

I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient…

— Joe Dunthorne

Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels…

— Eleanor Antin

“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history…

— Milan Kundera

It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age…

— H. L. Mencken

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

— Jonathan Swift

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ancient Egyptian culture was so enduring. It went on for thousands of years.

— Josh Gates

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

— Pierre de Fermat

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

— John Ortberg

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

— Gilbert Murray

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

— Hugh Howey

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

— Mario Botta

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

— Alan Rickman

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

— John Webster

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Rick Riordan

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

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