Our Ancient Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
-
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets…
— Diane Ackerman
-
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of…
— Andrew Bernstein
-
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days…
— Mark Twain
-
Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of…
— Hugh Prather
-
Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried…
— Michel de Montaigne
-
It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish…
— Theodor Herzl
-
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves.…
— Helen Garner
-
How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of…
— Osbert Sitwell
-
The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this…
— Tertullian
-
Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and even interacted with…
— David G. McAfee
-
I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the…
— Arthur Ashe
-
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
-
Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.
— Dalai Lama
-
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and…
— Diane Ackerman
-
Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to…
— M.I.A.
-
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
-
He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at…
— Ronald Steel
-
I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The…
— Lord Byron
-
Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the…
— James Christensen
Who Wrote These Our Ancient Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Our Ancient Quotes as follows: