Quotes About Remnants

In the middle of the nineteenth century a railway line was made from London's Fenchurch Street to Southend and, when excavating at what is now South Benfleet (Beamfleot), the navvies discovered the charred remnants of burned ships among which were scattered human skeletons. Those remains were over nine hundred years old, and they were what was left of Haesten's army and fleet. I

When I visited either of the two Koreas I always imagined that I was traveling back to my roots and would discover new truths about my past. Now it occurred to me that the past I was seeking had for many years been buried under and overtaken by American and Chinese influences. The Korea of my imagination existed only in paintings, history books, the memories of older generations, and in the remnants that I glimpsed, every now and then, like shards of glass poking out from the buried past.

I have always believed that places with a long history, especially those in which terrible events have taken place, retain something of those times, some trace in the air.

It isn't that nothing is left. It is that what remains is such an old sad ghost of the thing that used to be, and he can't bear lying down with the vestiges.

place in him where memory remained, like a patch of soil the tractor has missed, where a few dry stalks of last summer's crops still stand in their withered rows, the soil not turned over.

On the lunatic fringe of Brexit – a fringe long enough to get in the eyes of rational governance – there is a belief that England can find itself only when the remnants of socialism and liberalism are burned off in the crucible of pain. Suffering is not a side effect of the great project; it is the medicine.

History is only written from what remains.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.

the ruin insufficiently ruined

Their uselessness becomes their asset: they turn into totems and fragments of the lost worlds they came from.

During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed. So our job becomes to keep peace with enemy camps, eliminate the chaos at the end of Jacobean tragedies, and with 'the mercy of distance' write the histories.

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves.

The strange and scattered pieces of ourselves we leave behind,

So, paganism is simply a reference to following the old remnants of the Vedic Aryan culture. And people throughout pre-Christian Europe worshiped a variety of spirits and demigods, known by different names according to culture and region.

But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

According to a few sparse anthropological notes he had found, the Fremen were the remnants of an ancient wandering people, the Zensunni, who had been slaves dragged from world to world. After being freed, or perhaps escaping, from their captivity they had tried to find a home for centuries, but were persecuted everywhere they went. Finally, they'd gone to ground here on Arrakis—and somehow they had thrived.

He took off the shredded remnants of his pants. "You look funny without your pants." Richard spun around. Scarlet was watching him. "Those are not reassuring words for a man to hear from a female, even if the female is a dragon.

We are a tribe of fractured individuals who can now only celebrate remnants of wildness.

Ghosts are both remnants of history and witnesses to it.

The God of the Bible is a God who specializes in minorities and who works through remnants.

The broken things, forgotten things... and missing things.

An unfinished bottle of champagne found in an old cupboard with all the sparkle gone.