Antiquity Quote by Walter Benjamin

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization…

— John Cheever

As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken…

— Bruno Schulz

The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack?"…

— Christine Feehan

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil…

— Henry David Thoreau

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

— Henry Waxman

Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than…

— Andre Malraux

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of…

— John Green

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are…

— Henry David Thoreau

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

— Heinrich Schliemann

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

— Le Corbusier

These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until…

— Howard Carter