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I have a huge interest in ancient Egyptian times and the mummies and the kings and all that.
Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.
Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.
A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
The Kurds are an ancient, democratic, peace-loving people that have never attacked any country.
In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.
I'm a total nerd, so I'm on my telescope, or I read a lot. I'm very inspired by ancient history.
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
"What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass."
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.
Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.
When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.
We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.
Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
Everything comes from your own heart. This is what one ancient called bringing out the family treasure.
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
I love The Edge's guitar style; it is unique. There is an ancient world resonating in his guitar sound.
There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.
The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.