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Ancient Quotes by Roderick Murchison
- Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they…
- We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
More Ancient Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As… — Andrew Bernstein
- In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler