Ancient Quotes

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.