Ancient Quotes

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Spying has always gone on since ancient times. — Vladimir Putin
Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to… — M.I.A.
The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those… — Alison Gopnik
Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of… — Tess Gerritsen
The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments. — Howard Shore
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. — Robert Wilson
My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date back to ancient… — David Wroblewski
In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance was widespread. The… — Chiang Kai-shek
The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians… — Henry Grunwald
In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations… — Mary McFadden
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my… — F. Sionil Jose
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even… — F. Sionil Jose
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the… — Orson F. Whitney
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived… — Alex Shoumatoff
Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there! — Fei Fei Sun
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa
In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy. — Amish Tripathi
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth:… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential. — Caroline Paul
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and… — Simon Van Booy

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