Ancient Quotes

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side kid - Han Solo.

Start with familiar fairy tales or Bible stories or old folk tales or ancient myths and legends. You can tell them straight, or you can add your own twists. If it's a story kids already know, they'll try to correct you if you stray, but that's part of the fun. You can make each story your own.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

There is a reasonable hypothesis that there could have been an ancient civilization on Mars, ... At no point has NASA chosen to address this scientifically.

A lot of people don't know that Chicago actually sits on an ancient reef. Most of Chicago was under water until [340 million years ago].

There's an ancient mosaic called the Tree of Life. All religions are branches of one tree.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

The tools of the theatre are ancient and basic ? a group of humans in a room, communicating with words, breath, sweat, glances, laughter, tears, and sighs. Night after night we perform live, and we try to explore what it means to be human. The eight productions of our 2006-2007 season will take our audience on a journey through many flavors of live theatre.

One of the most important discoveries from studying ancient mitochondrial DNA is the estimate of when humans diverged in evolution from the Neanderthals - around half a million years ago.

The dancer's hand movements are in ancient sign language.

We in South Asia are custodians of an ancient civilization and a rich heritage. The South Asian tapestry is a wonderfully vibrant and colorful weave of races, religions, ethnic communities that bears testimony to the great variations of history, which the region has experienced.

It was a special ambiance. We were inside an ancient city - it was very impressive.

The kids coming in today have little to no recollection of it. That's ancient history to them.

The Ancient Order of Hibernians in Albany has a strong interest in promoting public awareness of the Wounded Warrior Project so these brave men and women receive all of the assistance needed to resume their lives.

Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number.

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Faith has always been one of several primary themes in art. In ancient civilizations, the grandeur of their cities and everything they did was symbolic of their beliefs.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

This dramatic discovery of an ancient non-biblical text -- considered by some to be the most significant in the past 60 years -- enhances our knowledge of the history and theological viewpoints of the early Christian period, and is worthy of study by historians, scholars and theologians.

By studying the design of export wares in ancient times, the spread of Christianity, the introduction of scientific knowledge and the materialization of cultural synthesis, visitors are able to learn about the specific roles that the Pearl River Delta region played in the history of Sino-Western commercial and cultural exchanges.

We could never study an ancient tsunami without having some man-made materials surviving from that time. This temple is our link to that.

Our discovery now poses very interesting questions not only about ancient Tamils but also about the history of tsunami.