Perished Quotes

82 Perished quotes by 74 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the… — Henry Clay
Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves. — Golda Meir
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
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
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
After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished? — Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
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
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
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
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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