Ancient Quotes - Page 8

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

"What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass."

Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.

The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions.

Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.