Ancient Quotes

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The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox… — Adolf Hitler
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the… — Unknown Author
There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust… — Floyd Red Crow Westerman
In ancient cultures, they didn*t practice theory in their dances; they wanted to arrive at a state of trance, and I think that's an appropriate… — Reza Abdoh
Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Natureâ€™s fearful… — Daphne Sheldrick
I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my… — Nick Harkaway
The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book and we need… — Unknown Author
You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close to him. But… — Unknown Author
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly.… — Paul Provenza
At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me. — Carol P. Christ
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth,… — Carol P. Christ
The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows… — Janet Morris
I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow… — Helen Keller
But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the same… — Martin Chemnitz
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence. — Charlie Chaplin
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls? — William Blake
If a manâ€™s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies… — Edward Abbey
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago… — Kazuo Ishiguro
In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the… — Terry Pratchett

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