Best 393 quotes in «ancient quotes» category

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

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

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

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts!

I love playing in Japan! It's always like being in the ancient past and the future at the same time. And the fans sing along to every word.

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.

Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

I met a travler from an ancient land.

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically.

In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

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

I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.