Ancient history Quotes

“Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.”

“Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.”

“I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!”"That’s true,” Paul said. “I used to teach ancient history.”Poseidon’s eyes twinkled. “That’s me. Ancient history.”

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”

“In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.”

“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”

“With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates "tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes.”

“The claim "oh, that's ancient history" is almost always a wish, am anxious attempt to put a boundary of time around some event that really is not over at all; it is a bid to silence the past.”

“Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.”

“What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.”

“It is high time that you break the shackles of separatism and with the glorious flames of love, compassion and humanism in heart, you assimilate the goodness from all around you. Let love and compassion reign over the modern human civilization and hatred be a matter of ancient history.”