Ancient Quotes

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Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They… — Jack Kerouac
See how exciting Anthropology is? Heâ€™s a leading expert in ancient Greece. Now you should all change your majors so that you can ogle men… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Look, this isnâ€™t The Mummy. Itâ€™s not like a teenaged girlâ€™s diary could resurrect the dead or anything. Itâ€™s just the story of her innocuous… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ryssa? How do you know her name was Ryssa? (Tory) Uhâ€¦I donâ€™t. I just gave her a name. It seemed more polite than calling her… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering… — Bart D. Ehrman
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown… — Langston Hughes
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is… — Wendell Berry
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach… — Hermann Hesse
Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and… — Terry Pratchett
Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?" "A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!" "Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell… — Rick Riordan
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a… — George Orwell
The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years.â€ â€œYeah,â€… — Rick Riordan
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging… — John Steinbeck
I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that… — Breece D'J Pancake
Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasnâ€™t a compliment. â€œI will rend your limbs from their sockets!â€ he shouted. â€œI… — Rick Riordan
The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient… — Jim Butcher
Do I feel ancient to you now?" he murmered. "Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?" Her eyes were already glowing… — Jeaniene Frost
What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek… — Yukio Mishima
Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also those who think… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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