“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or… — Francis Bacon 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
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
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
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
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage. — Paul Robeson 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
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
As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a… — Betye Saar Copy Share Image
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested,… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“this, I believe, is when the holy relics at St Denis are usually taken down and exposed, bu all right-minded people, against… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 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
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge,… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it's a relic, — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still… — Charles Kay Ogden Copy Share Image
“On Relics and Love: A Q&A with Natalie Brown, author of The Lovebird: http://www.everydayebook.com/2013/06/... ” — Natalie Brown Copy Share Image
When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got… — Bob Seger 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
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
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
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