Ancient Quote by Jennifer Yuh Nelson

It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway…

— Anonymous

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

— James A. Garfield

“We who work in fantasy today take the threads from all the story tellers of the past. From the ancient, many colored threads we…

— Janet Lee Carey

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now…

— Charles de Lint

“The ancients Knew exactly what they were doing. There is no mystery on why the monuments around the word are placed where they are.…

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

— Irving Stone

“I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors…

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just…

— Michelle Moran

Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones, ditches, mounds,…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne