Perished Quotes
82 Perished quotes by 74 unique authors
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In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no…
— Peter Garrett
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The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of…
— G. H. Hardy
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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the…
— Nikola Tesla
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Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew…
— Gary North
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs,…
— S. J. Perelman
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations…
— Irving Babbitt
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Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows…
— Anton Chekhov
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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to…
— William Shakespeare
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They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the…
— Henry Clay
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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
— Golda Meir
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If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
— Epicurus
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles…
— Samuel Lover
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would…
— Emily Bronte
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After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.
— Virginia Woolf
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at…
— Sara Teasdale
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During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against…
— Max Brooks
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Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all…
— Clive Barker
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There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again,…
— Marilynne Robinson
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