The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past, — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like… — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by… — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
With the idea that a single creator can build a society wherein a huge number of people will live, Le Corbusier later… — Masato Otaka Copy Share Image
You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him .… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Well neither of us were "Buddhists" then because it was new to us. We were 60's people. Psychedelic relics, you know... whatever,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely… — John Banville Copy Share Image
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had… — Chiara Lubich Copy Share Image
“The allure of antiquity... The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients. A visceral… — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the only recognized relics of yesterday's farmers are obsolete curiosities when the greatest relic, their philosophy of living, is seldom considered. — Eric Sloane Copy Share Image
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great! — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Very curious, and the story that hangs round it will strike you as being more curious still." "These relics have a history… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of… — Rose Quiello Copy Share Image
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. — Heinrich Schliemann Copy Share Image
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past. — Wladyslaw Bartoszewski Copy Share Image
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