Ancient History Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
— Nicolas Cage
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None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in…
— Ernest Renan
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The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog…
— Carl Ally
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You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of…
— Saddam Hussein
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I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for…
— Nancy Spero
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All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
— Tacitus
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Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.
— Dean Hamer
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Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the…
— Edith Hall
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Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
— Stacy Schiff
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You probably won't remember me. I'm probably ancient history. I'm one of the chosen few who went ahead and fell for you. I'm out of…
— Jann Arden
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Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?
— Sam Shoemaker
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This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging…
— Azar Nafisi
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What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color…
— Isabel Wilkerson
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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
— Martin Scorsese
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight…
— Maya Angelou
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that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]
— Rick Riordan
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I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,†Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!†"That’s true,†Paul said. “I used…
— Rick Riordan
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My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if…
— Sara Gruen
Who Wrote These Ancient History Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Ancient History Quotes as follows: