History Quote by Mary Shelley Download Open image ““The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.”” — Mary Shelley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Religion
“I consider the days of old, I remember the years long ago. I commune with my heart in the night; I meditate and search… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
“elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying… — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Copy Share Image
“Good-by, then, old friend. . . . in that wider world of being of which this little Cambridge world of ours forms so infinitesimal… — Stacy Horn Copy Share Image
“What I know of spirit is astir in the world. The god I have always expected to appear at the woods' edge, beckoning, I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“He led them deep into the heart of the palace, to halls that were older and seemingly more esoteric than the ones before. No… — Eva Vanrell Copy Share Image
“Even days that culminate in a grand battle against an insane ghost and a trip across the border between this world and the spirit… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“They heard a deep murmur of voices, and this time not in their heads. Thousands of the ancient Spirits of both Realms swirled above… — Angela Orlowski-Peart Copy Share Image
“Let us get of these indoor narrow modern days, whose twelve hours somehow have become shortened, into the sunlight and the pure wind. A… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
“So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.” — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“When memory of bygone days My spirit would detain, Down long and often trodden ways I travel the past again. Above your house are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I agree with you," replied the stranger; "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves -- such… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image