Quotes of: Ancient-greeks Keyword

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

Len Wein

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

Marina Abramovic

Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress.

Roman Payne

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Samuel Butler

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

Robert Peel

These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.

Elaine Pagels

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

Carol P. Christ

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

John Pearson

Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.

Evan Sayet

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Edward P. Jones

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

Bruce Lipton

But that woman is an encyclopedia! Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!

Jean Lorrain

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

Joanne Harris

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Margaret Atwood

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

Saint Augustine

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Ambrose Bierce

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

Andrew Motion

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

William Congreve

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.

Carol P. Christ

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

Clark M. Clifford

New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.

The Element -inth in Greek