The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars… — John Gould Fletcher Copy Share Image
In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The mother tongue of politicians is that of ancient Babylon: a language designed to severely limit discourse within a tower of praise… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
"Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He… — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of… — Honorius Augustodunensis Copy Share Image
Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon. — Anna Komnene Copy Share Image
“...Alas, Babylon was to be among the first to give a public voice to the fears and anxieties associated with a nuclear… — Hal Hager Copy Share Image
We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Berossos compiled his History from the temple archives of Babylon (reputed to have contained "public records" that had been preserved for "over… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
