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Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer's most ancient task.
— David Burr Gerrard
You listen to the silencedrawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices. — Helene Cardona
So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
— Charles Kingsley
There are two parts to the equation: feel good + take action. The ancient Sufi proverb says; Trust in Allah, but first tie your camel to a post.
— Andrew Matthews
Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.
— Mikheil Saakashvili
Late have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late I have loved you! You were within, but I was without.
— Augustine Of Hippo
In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.
— George Papandreou
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
— Mary Oliver
I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back's not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train.
— Jayde Scott
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There's an ancient philosophical joke that's much subtler than it seems. Question: Why is the Universe here? Answer: Where else would it be?
— Arthur C. Clarke
For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.
— Robert Harris
I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy — Tim Minchin
America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin
— H.W. Brands
Manon Blackbeak awoke to the sighing of leaves, the distant call of wary birds, and the reek of loam and ancient wood. She
— Sarah J. Maas
The pair sat in silence: the ancient god from across the oceans who had retired, the human host of an ancient god visiting from the heavens.
— Adam Christopher
The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.
— Howard Shore
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
— Johannes Stark
A very ancient and fish-like smell.
— William Shakespeare
Sixty Royal Cubits probably correspond to a one week (i.e., ten days) on the ancient Egyptian calendar.
— Ibrahim Ibrahim
The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
— Charles Bukowski
The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.
— Frederick Lenz
The ceiling was a mural showing some ancient hero making a deal with a two-faced celestial being.
— Brian McClellan
Of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races. — Toba Beta
A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
a man at 100, and some species of
tortoises not until 150 years. — Leonard Hayflick
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
You think ancient soul-eating demons are terrifying? Try a run-in with Renn's crazy ex-girlfriend if you want a real scare." (July Henry)
— Megan Applegate
There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).
— Arthur Koestler
Many hidden truths are often unobserved, not invisible.
— Matthew A. Petti
Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way?
— Ray Bradbury
Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.
— Jane Hirshfield
The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
— Abhijit Naskar
On sunny days of summer, I am indeed the butterfly;
And like the ancient drummer,
I rhythm straight towards the sky ... — Stephan Attia
Spanish rain,A maiden's dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancholy kills
A girl's caress. — Roman Payne
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.
— Rita Mae Brown
Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.-Chiron — Rick Riordan
The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.
— Mary Carolyn Davies
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
— William Penn
The distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos.
— James Henry Breasted
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.
— Robert Johnson
Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside.
— Carla H. Krueger
All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.
— Paul Beatty
Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.
— Terry A. O'Neal
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
— Joanne Harris
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
— Shereen El Feki
Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.
— Dante Alighieri
I don't need to be ancient to be worth something.
— Aimee Carter
Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below.
— Gerald R. Stanek
Death is something ancient, but it comes fresh to each of us.
— Ivan Turgenev
She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
— Alice Hoffman
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
— Will Rogers
Their yellow eyes seemed to hold ancient knowledge, as if their memories of want and drought and survival were so much more than Maria's.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.
— Frank Herbert
After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.
— Jonathan Sacks
Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture.
— John H. Walton
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.
— Patricia Briggs
Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?
— Jean Said Makdisi
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.
— Charles Spurgeon
All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
— Helena Bonham Carter
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
— Henry David Thoreau
He was six years old this time, and ancient.
— Red Tash
I'd say it was a pleasure rowing with you, only it wasn't.
— Jennifer McKeithen
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
— David Mitchell
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.
— Charlie Campbell
The future has an ancient heart.
— Carlo Levi
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
— W. H. Auden
In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
— Barack Obama
