Quotes About Ancient

Felines were venerated and worshiped in ancient Egypt as the embodiment of goddess Bastet's spirit. In fact, the Egyptians respected cats so much that the invading Persians adorned their shields with them in 525 BC in the hope that the Egyptians would refuse to throw spears at them. They were right, and the Persians won the battle.

An ancient English law made it a crime to witness a murder or discover a corpse and not raise a "hue and cry." But

was found to be full of shreds of papyrus inscribed with Greek characters Ã¢â'¬Â¦ They seem to have formed the contents of the office of some public scribe, which have been dispersed and scattered by the wind over the adjoining desert.

In the time of Servius Tullius, who first coined money at Rome, the Roman as or pondo contained a Roman pound of good copper.

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

Critical to both our imaginative impoverishment and our practical enrichment is the field of endeavour known as logistics, a name rooted in the Ancient Greek military figure of the logistikos or quartermaster, who was once responsible for supplying an army with food and weaponry.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Not the Force, but a more ancient, more highly developed sense in man half convinced him they were being watched.

she gathered her belongings and headed for the makeshift entrance that led into the belly of the half-destroyed AT-AT walker. It might be an ancient, rotting, rusting example of now useless military might, but to Rey, it was home.

One can argue, why not simply give the solution; why go through the trouble of creating a puzzle? Ancient Hindus believed, wisdom must never be given. It has to be taken. And

you can't read the Vedas; they're meant to be heard. Just the way you can't read the Beatles—you've got to hear them! There

Ancient Hindus believed, wisdom must never be given. It has to be taken.

While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger. Unlike almost every other contested idea in early Christianity, including the nature of Christ and the doctrine of the Trinity, the unanimous witness of the ancient fathers and mothers was that hospitality was the primary Christian virtue.

Throughout the first five centuries people understood Christianity primarily as a way of life in the present, not as a doctrinal system, esoteric belief, or promise of eternal salvation. By followers enacting Jesus's teachings, Christianity changed and improved the lives of its adherents and served as a practical spiritual pathway. This way—and earliest Christians were called "the People of the Way"—bettered existence for countless ancient believers.

He captures something of C. S. Lewis in The Lord of the Rings. The character Treebeard makes an unusual "Hrum, Hroom" sound when he speaks. This was Tolkien's attempt to capture the "booming voice" of Lewis. The identification of Lewis with this wise and ancient tree-man should be seen as high praise, indeed, for Tolkien's love for trees is evident throughout his writing. More

Darling, my friend has just been mugged and she needs better coffee than this. Was it made from ancient beans? Do us all a favor and make a fresh pot.

Some say these people were Phoenicians, but that is incorrect; they were older than the Phoenicians being Atlanteans,

You want to wake the Old Gods, don't you?" "Yes." "Well then, go where the Old Gods are accustomed to be worshipped.

The ancient green canopy of the rain forest rippled like the surface of a pond as trees crashed down.

You know the word 'barbarian' came from the Romans? It meant 'redheaded.' They was talking about you people. I saw that on the—what do you call it?—the History Channel, last night.

The hoplites drove the tyrants from power and created broad oligarchies in their place.

Philolaus of Corinth (about 730 B.C.?) had supposedly enacted regulations ensuring that the farms at Thebes might remain the same number in perpetuity. The Corinthian Pheidon, "one of the most ancient of the lawgivers," purportedly argued that the population and the number of plots ought always to remain roughly equal. An even more shadowy figure, Phaleas the Chalcedonian, advanced the concept that all citizens of the polis ought to hold equal amounts of property.148

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.