Ancient Quote by Adrienne Mayor

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates…

— Gary Inbinder

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to…

— Madame de Stael

“The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a motorway, while…

— José Saramago

“The allure of antiquity... The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients. A visceral connection to…

— Monika Ajay Kaul

“Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing…

— Charles Darwin

“The places we have known do not belong only to the world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. They…

— Marcel Proust

“A city finds its life through the humans who inhabit it. When they go, what is truly left? Just silent stones, witnesses to the…

— Michael Puttonen

“The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even…

— Michael Jacobs

“We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped…

— Kevin James Moore

One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course,…

— Clement Attlee

“The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for our own convenience.…

— Marcel Proust