Quotes About Ancient

If he had been an ancient Egyptian, it was her image he'd have painted on the walls of his tomb, so that he could look at her for all eternity. Earl of Lisle, Last Night Scandal

Perhaps he will say, 'That was an excellent idea the ancient Greeks had, of abandoning female infants on a mountainside. Why was that practice given up, I wonder?

The first contraceptive was crocodile dung," she whispered. "The Egyptians used it in 2000 BC.

Much later, the Seleucid Babylonians, who ruled over Mesopotamia as the successors of Alexander the Great, invented a symbol to replace this ambiguous 'gap' that the old Babylonians employed. Thus, the earliest known symbol for zero () is found on many Babylonian cuneiform clay tablets from around 300 BCE.

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

Do you know my dog's name? [...] It is from an ancient word, kerberos. It means 'spotted.' I blinked. You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And . . . you named your dog *Spot*?

I was casting everything I had done, everything I believed, everything I had chosen—everything I was—against the will of an ancient being of darkness, terror, and malice, a fundamental power of the world. And the bonds and the will of Mother Winter could not constrain me.

It's an old place, but it sings in the darkness and is, in its own quirky little way, alive. It's home.

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

The council is old school. Really, really old school.

Writing writhed across the surface of the stone, runes that looked a little familiar. Norse, maybe? Some of them looked more like Egyptian. They seemed to take something from several different sources, leaving them unreadable.

Así que vamos a entrar en un laberinto de antiguos túneles oscuros y putrefactos, llenos de monstruos y criaturas malignas. Asentí. - Y puede que haya también algo de radiactividad.

Sometimes the best defense is a T. rex.

Yahweh, identified as Enlil.

Ride the snake, to=the=lake, the ancient=lake BAAABYY! The snake is loooong, SEVEN miles! [$$] Riiide the snake~! She's OLD, her skin is COLD!~~//Ride the snaaaaake! THE WEST IS THE BEST!~ THE WEST IS THE BEST~~!!~~ [!!] oh yeah!//$\ COME ON! etc. snake/ride you get it...

S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence.

Beware, Morgane . You thought I wasn't dangerous? That chocolate was too sweet, too soft to rival your ink and your needles? Chocolate is an ancient art. It comes from very far away. And under the softness, the sweetness- it waits. And it is bitter.

They ridicule us for taking orders from a book that was written thousands of years ago, as if truth changes with time.

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

This life the old Sabines knew long ago; Remus knew it, and his brother.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.