Best 393 quotes in «ancient quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I met a travler from an ancient land.

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

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.

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

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

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.

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.

I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where God says before you were formed in the womb, I knew you, and so for my first time in public life, I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.