Immemorial Quotes
49 quotes by 46 authors
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men…
— George Ellery Hale
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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind…
— H. L. Mencken
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That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
— Euripides
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It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast…
— Henry James
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Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable…
— Lewis Mumford
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From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the French call them,…
— Louis Pullig De Gouy
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What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...
— George Ellery Hale
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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous…
— Oswald Spengler
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While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this faculty…
— Thomas Ligotti
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From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep…
— Ben Klassen
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As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to…
— Guy Adams
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From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love.…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand…
— Scott Cunningham
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
— Abdus Salam
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The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time immemorial- the woman.…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
— Frederick Soddy
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Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not…
— Ali Akbar Khan
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