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Quotes About Ancient

as old as seas and mountains. . . .
~ Larry Niven
dealt with biology, and Fistarteh-thuktun had studied it before. Hierarchies of plant life to the left, animal life to the right. Tiny, ancient single-nucleated life at the bottom, scaling toward complex warm-blooded air breathers at the top. Simple sketches at every level.
~ Larry Niven
Hierarchies of plant life to the left, animal life to the right. Tiny, ancient single-nucleated life at the bottom, scaling toward complex warm-blooded air breathers at the top. Simple sketches at every level.
~ Larry Niven
As we approached the forty-five-day mark, we heard that it was an ancient tradition at that monastery to spend one week in the middle of the ninety days without any sleep at all.
~ Larry Rosenberg
Jerusalem is a golden bowl full of scorpions.
~ Laurie R. King
That animated, Hellenistic sculpture with the green eyes...
~ Laurie R. King
The lion-dust of desert: prophets' tombs turned to zinc and copper at sunset on the ancient lake.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Ancient lands, in all their prehistoric intactness: lake-solitudes hardly brushed by the hurrying feet of the centuries where the uninterrupted pedigrees of pelican and ibis and heron evolve their slow destinies in complete seclusion.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.
~ Alison Jolly
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
~ Adam Sedgwick
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
~ Anaxagoras
Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.
~ P.D. Ouspensky
The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.
~ Howard Bloom
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
~ H. P. Blavatsky
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.
~ Frederick Lenz
Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.
~ Dean Hamer
Magic is an ancient practice that has power over superstitious mind.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
When they explore opportunity cost of black blood I hear ancient corridors survived on the neck of ancient souls Satellite empires, the oversight dark forces
~ Omondi Ochuka
Scent is like a kiss of time travel which transports one to an ancient memorable occasion.
~ Evans Biya
Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!
~ Horace Binney Wallace
He constructed a road from Gaur to the river Indus," says Mushtaqui, but it is more likely that Sher Shah only repaired and realigned the road, for there had been a highway along that grid from ancient times.
~ Abraham Eraly
The laws of the Torah ask of each generation to fulfill what is within its power to fulfill. Some of its laws (for example Exodus 21:2 ff),14 do not represent ideals but compromises, realistic attempts to refine the moral condition of ancient man.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel