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: