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Quotes About Ancient

It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
~ Zahi Hawass
All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.
~ Alexander Henry
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
~ Giraldus Cambrensis
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
~ Andrew Weil
The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
~ Simon Schama
The Bible is a history book.
~ Amar'e Stoudemire
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
~ Hans-Georg Gadamer
The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
~ Laurence Yep
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
~ Gore Vidal
Stonehenge is famously aligned with midsummer sunrise, and possibly also intentionally with midwinter sunset.
~ Alice Roberts
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
~ Carl Olson
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I circle for millennia, around God, around the ancient tower,    and still do not know: am I hawk, a storm, or a great song?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
SONG OF THE SEA Timeless sea breezes, sea-wind of the night: you come for no one; if someone should wake, he must be prepared how to survive you. Timeless sea breezes, that for aeons have blown ancient rocks, you are purest space coming from afar…
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yamadutas, ancient, inscrutable and of many lives unknown are the reasons of Siva.
~ Ramesh Menon
How should we be able to forget those ancient myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Ranier Marie Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
~ Ranier Maria Rilke
Slova Cuvântului este veche, dar binecuvântarea e mereu nou?.
~ Ravi Zacharias
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
~ Ray Bradbury
It had moved in the midnight waters of space like a pale sea leviathan; it had passed the ancient moon and thrown itself onward into one nothingness following another.
~ Ray Bradbury
There were fireworks the very first night, things that you should be afraid of perhaps, for they might remind you of other more horrible things, but these were beautiful, rockets that ascended into the ancient soft air of Mexico and shook the stars apart in blue and white fragments.
~ Ray Bradbury