Ancient Quotes

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Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea… — George Crumb
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we… — David Gemmell
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. — David Gemmell
The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God. — John Mellencamp
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff. — William Topaz McGonagall
Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly… — Roy Chapman Andrews
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in… — Francis Galton
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything. — Pierre de Fermat
Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind. — Dan Fogelberg
Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe. — James Boswell
Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind. — Isaac D'Israeli
In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of… — Freeman Dyson
China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position… — Chiang Kai-shek
While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so… — Dick Cavett
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is… — Bertrand Russell
In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is… — Mantak Chia
Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is… — Jok Church
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for,… — Patricia Hampl
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and… — Maturin Murray Ballou
The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest... — Charles Tennyson Turner
Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures… — Peter York
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. — James Henry Breasted
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the… — Gerald of Wales
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and… — Erland Josephson

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