Ancient Quotes

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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the… — Martin Amis
O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve? — Du Fu
In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am… — Meher Baba
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and… — Jonathan Raban
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand… — Israel Shenker
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee… — Northrop Frye
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. — Michael Mandelbaum
There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression. — Siddhartha Mukherjee
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging… — Azar Nafisi
We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us… — Nursultan Nazarbayev
White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal… — Henry Twells
There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew). — Arthur Koestler
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now… — Christian Lous Lange
I've been collecting photos for a long time, I mean since I started making money. But what you have had to go through to find… — Guy Oseary
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could… — Manuel Puig
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between… — George Edmund Street
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark
W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are… — Frederick Lenz
"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles,… — Abraham Cowley
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were… — Bernie Taupin
Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public… — Lawrence Wright
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to… — Mo Yan
In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in… — John Walford

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