Ancient Quotes

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On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year… — Barack Obama
Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I… — Thomas Jefferson
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college." — G. H. Hardy
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts. — John Templeton
No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow. — William E. Conway, Jr.
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Unknown Author
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations. — Roderick Murchison
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. — Henry Suso
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life,… — Anna Garlin Spencer
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer… — Amelia B. Edwards
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What… — Dean Radin
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition,… — Earnest Hooton
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak… — Paul Feyerabend
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until… — Grazia Deledda
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more… — Margaret E. Knight
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.… — Dennis McKinsey
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important. — George Ellwanger
If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. — William Shakespeare
...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is… — Barbara G. Walker
Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so completely guided by,… — Corinne Heline
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it… — Corinne Heline
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean. — Josip Broz Tito
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in… — Penelope Lively

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