Ancient Quotes

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If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for… — Wade Davis
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point… — Jodi Picoult
that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul] — Rick Riordan
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles… — Dan Brown
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence… — Anne Carson
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited. — Barbara Mertz
We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things… — Simon R. Green
He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He… — Paul Cornell
Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of… — Diane Duane
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they… — Jorge Luis Borges
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the… — Leo Buscaglia
...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous… — Vladimir Nabokov
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and… — Dan Brown
There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion… — Terry Pratchett
O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too,… — Albert Camus
One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that… — L. Ron Hubbard
He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing.… — Dan Brown
In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem… — Emily Rodda
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let… — Lawrence Durrell

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