Relics Quotes
86 quotes by 79 authors
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
— Emily Bronte
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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all…
— Honore de Balzac
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One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a…
— Fred Hoyle
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under…
— John Milton
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We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the…
— Chiara Lubich
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The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of…
— Charles Kay Ogden
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Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
— John Maynard Keynes
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Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.
— Stephen King
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Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
— Susan Sontag
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of…
— Adrienne Rich
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I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag…
— Ingrid Betancourt
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Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
— Marc Maron
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There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past,
— William J. Clinton
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I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving…
— Betye Saar
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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease…
— Sigmund Freud
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Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.
— Paul Robeson
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Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance.…
— Carl Jung
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Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.
— Henry Waxman
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
— John Maynard Keynes
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What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are…
— Nick Cave
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