363 Quotes About Ancient
- Author Roland Barthes
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…one can conceive of very ancient myths, but there are no eternal ones; for it is human history which converts reality into speech, and it alone rules the life and the death of mythical language. Ancient or not, mythology can only have an historical foundation, for myth is a type of speech chosen by history…
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- Author Zita Steele
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The ancient and the modern blended together in haunting harmony. The war looked like a dream here; a fantasy dwarfed by the sands of time.
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- Author Zita Steele
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He was executed in public by a troop of officials wearing jackal and anteater masks. His embalming knife was the instrument of his demise. They performed purifying rituals on it to appease the spirits of any dead it had helped.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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How many stories are there that have been lived, but will never be told? Far too many for me to squander the one that I’m living.
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- Author Brian Andreas
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That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the skyAnd there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our griefand then one by one, we stood talland came togetherand began to sing of life and love and all that is good and trueAnd I will never forget that day when the ancient songs died because there was no one in the world to sing them.
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- Author Akhenaten
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Those who gave thee a body furnished it with weakness, but he who gave you a soul armed you with resolution. Use it, and be wise.
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- Author Toba Beta
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General..behold the future of weaponry.""What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?""It's..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!""It's..what?
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.
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- Author Ancient Chinese Proverb
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Misquoting is the art of futures past...
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