Ancient History Quotes
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Ancient History Quotes & Sayings
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They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern.
Well, okay ... maybe medieval. — Roberta Pearce
Well, okay ... maybe medieval. — Roberta Pearce
The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.
— Michael J. Findley
His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.
— Andrew Roberts
The ancient writers were not merely convinced of Moses' existence: they saw him as one of the formative figures of world history.
— Paul Johnson
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
— Goldwin Smith
Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.
— Stephen M. Barr
There exist continuation of time; past, present and future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
— Nicolas Cage
The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.
— Marc Bloch
that's me. ancient history."
[Poseidon to Paul] — Rick Riordan
[Poseidon to Paul] — Rick Riordan
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
— Martin Scorsese
Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial.
Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves. — Toba Beta
Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves. — Toba Beta
I'm a total nerd, so I'm on my telescope, or I read a lot. I'm very inspired by ancient history.
— Michelle Phan
Is any history really all that ancient? ... Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame.
— Gustave Flaubert
Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.
— James Joyce
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal.
— James Henry Breasted
It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.
— Matthew Stewart
He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.
— Guglielmo Ferrero
I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets ... the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Ancient literature is a rich history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We travel to ancient times by reading history books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn."
"I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now."
Luke & Jaina — Aaron Allston
"I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now."
Luke & Jaina — Aaron Allston
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.
— Charles Spurgeon
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
— Shereen El Feki
History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.
— Tariq Ali
Europe's history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and
— Shashi Tharoor
History of India From Ancient Times to the 20th Century by William W. Hunter
— William W. Hunter
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
— Tacitus
Is your Christianity ancient history
or current events? — Sam Shoemaker
or current events? — Sam Shoemaker
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
— James Henry Breasted
We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.
— Nursultan Nazarbayev
Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
— Stacy Schiff
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
— John Webster
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita