Ancient History Quotes

They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern.
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

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. — Martin Scorsese

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium — Horace

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television. — Tariq Ali

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history. — David Bowie

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work. — Kenneth W. Harl

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

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

Is your Christianity ancient history
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

When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal. — James Henry Breasted

Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T. — Sy Montgomery

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history. — James Joyce

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history. — Dean Hamer

The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame. — Gustave Flaubert

Is any history really all that ancient? ... Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present? — Margaret Peterson Haddix

Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial.
Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves. — Toba Beta

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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

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

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction. — Voltaire

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

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. — Andrew Weil

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