Quotes About Ancient

The romantic image of the ancient world is very inspiring, as is nature itself, but I think the dissatisfaction with our modern world is the strongest force keeping me going.

India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other's culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.

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

I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it's really like... living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning.

It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.

Of all Rome's seven hills, however, the Palatine was the most exclusive by far.

Sasanian monarchy and the fabled Kayanid

January 10, the seven-hundred-and-fifth year since the foundation of Rome, the forty-ninth before the birth of Christ.

When two of his legions, in direct contradiction of his orders, engaged with Spartacus and suffered yet another defeat, Crassus's response was to resurrect the ancient and terrible punishment of decimation. Every tenth man was beaten to death, the obedient along with the disobedient, the brave along with the cowardly, while their fellows were forced to watch.

Als dat glorieuze continent zich blijft beroepen op zijn eeuwige waarden - waarom zouden dan ook zijn eeuwenoude kwalen niet meer gelden?

The Crone tires quickly and reaches out for the velvet draperies, sits on the divan, breathing heavily. She's too ancient to have a name any longer. When she coughs you can hear the ages rattling inside her shrunken frame. No human names can cling to her any more- they slip from her dusty shriveled flesh like a young girl's whimsies.

Thus the oldest great monarchy in the West assured the establishment of the first great republic since ancient times. In the process, Versailles bankrupted itself.

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. —Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

Does anyone know when they are going to come out with the new Mayan Calender?

It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.

hysteria—has always been more readily associated with women. The word comes from hyster, Greek for womb. The ancient Greeks believed that "hysteria" was a condition caused by abnormalities involving the uterus.

About two thousand years ago

a dark cave listening to Webs drone on about the ancient past? This is history, happening right now. We're in the middle of it, or we should be.

All right, he said slowly. It's a scroll.

Nothing built by man has ever improved on the ancient classic fingertip pushup

Tackling Old Testament ethics is a challenge. Besides a lot of territory to cover, the ancient Near East seems so strange and even otherworldly! We need a good bit of background discussion to help make better sense of this world and of certain Old Testament texts.

He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful. - Tim Latimer