Quotes About Ancient

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.

Those who would assail The Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions. The latter texts simply enjoy the considerable advantage of having made their public debut in the shadowy recesses of the ancient past, and are thus much harder to refute.

King bore witness to a message that was, in Saint Augustine's phrase, "ever ancient, ever new": an insistence that the testimony of the prophets and the example of Christ could march from the past into what King called "the fierce urgency of now" in order to liberate the future.

Rage is properly the title of Homer's poem, and his audience may have known it by that name, not Iliad .

My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.

My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern

The Moon There is such loneliness in that gold. The moon of the nights is not the moon Who the first Adam saw. The long centuries Of human vigil have filled her With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror.

O Time thy pyramids.

Alejandría, debelada, imploró en vano la misericordia del César

para los antiguos la palabra escrita no era otra cosa que un sucedáneo de la palabra oral.

The moon of the nights is not the moon Who the first Adam saw. The long centuries Of human vigil have filled her With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror. — Jorge Luis Borges, "The Moon," Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Poems , edited by Alexander Coleman (Penguin, 1999)

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects or schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Like the Egyptians, the Hittites sat when eating.

There are no traces of the Hittites at Shechem or on the eastern side of the Jordan

We must regard the Amorites as the earlier population, among a part of whom the Hittites in later days settled and intermarried.

The age of Hittite supremacy belongs to an earlier date than the rise of the monarchy in Israel; earlier, we may even say, than the Israelitish conquest of Canaan.

The Hittites were intruders in Syria as well as in Western Asia Minor.

There was thus a Hittite population which clustered round Hebron, and to whom the origin of Jerusalem was partly due.

The Jebusites ... belonged to one or other of these two great races; perhaps, indeed, to both (i.e., Amorites and Hittites).

In all likelihood, the nightwatch, not prostitution, is the world's most ancient profession, originating as soon as men and women first feared the darkness.

There is a deep, ancient connection between gambling and divination.

Flattery isn't the right word for his portrait. It's empathy—the same quality in the sculptures that surround them. The ancient artists were devotees above all else. Without love of their subject, they'd just be cutting stone; their adoration is what brings it to life.

Treaty of Kadesh, which is basically the first peace treaty in history.