Ancient Quote by Gabrielle Zevin Download Open image “I met a travler from an ancient land.” — Gabrielle Zevin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Land Mets
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.' — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
Once I heard Karunakaran was part of 'Lingaa,' I told him to somehow arrange for me to meet Thalaivar. The 'Jigarthanda' team met him… — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village. — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Like Nemanja Vidic, I came from a small town in a small country in Eastern Europe, but we had reached the top. — Dimitar Berbatov Copy Share Image
“He didn't break my heart. No one can break your heart except you.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
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I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“It is a lie that you should only speak from your heart- you ought to let your brain play a part too.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment. We couldn’t breathe or walk or eat. It… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
