363 Quotes About Ancient

  • Author Eula Biss
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    There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

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  • Author Francis Bacon
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    Ask a counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest

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  • Author Frank Black
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    It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

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  • Author John Burnside
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    In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication.

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  • Author John Burnside
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    A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.

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  • Author Karen Bell
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    The medium itself is so expressive and so ancient and each person has their own style they bring to it.

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  • Author Laird Barron
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    Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.

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  • Author Martha Beck
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    Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming.

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