Ancient Quotes

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.

I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful.

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

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

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

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

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths.

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.