Best 393 quotes in «ancient quotes» category

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

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

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants.

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.

A very ancient and fish-like smell.

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.

A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.

Back in the day, you'd walk down to a street corner and see some people making a story with a hat in front of them. It's ancient entertainment, ancient storytelling and oral history - now we're doing it on YouTube.

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

Dharma is an ancient word for truth.

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.

Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It`s a real thing. It`s not always referring to ancient history.

Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.