Ancient Learning Quotes

#1. Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

Dave Ramsey

#2. We really become one - we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor - freedom, expression, acceptance, love.

Jewel

#3. We travel to ancient times by reading history books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. [God] does not bind the ancient folk to outward doctrine as if they were learning their ABC's.

John Calvin

#5. Reading the Bible responsibly and respectfully today means learning what it meant for ancient Israelites to talk about God the way they did, and not pushing alien expectations onto texts written long ago and far away.

Peter Enns

#6. When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.

Debra Winger

#8. The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment.

Roy Peter Clark

#9. It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.

Dodie Smith

#10. In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England states, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for the convenience of a name, shall be entitled Harley College.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care of your God, and leave them there. He made you and therefore He understands you, and knows how to manage you, and you must trust Him to do it.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#12. Ancient literature is a rich history.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

John Milton

#14. I'm one of those fellas who's got lots of regrets, but I don't regret having regrets.

Lou Dobbs

#15. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Calvin Trillin

#16. I always thought it would have been fun to spend an evening with Patsy Cline - just because I think she was really fun and interesting. I think you'd have a really good time with her.

Martina Mcbride

#17. Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

William Penn

#18. Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

R.C. Sproul

#19. So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

Barack Obama

#20. She trudged along the side path. It all looked tidy enough. Kicking off the sand on her shoes, she looked down at the ground. And that's when she saw the footprints. Several of them and two different sizes. Her own and another set... Much larger. Twice her size. And

Sonia Parin

#21. It's hopeless," he went on. "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!"
"We are dwarfs," William admitted, "but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.

Umberto Eco

#22. Oh, God," Magnus said. "They're dead. They're all dead.

Cassandra Clare

#23. Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

Frederick Lenz

#24. The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

Menachem Begin

#25. Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

Hermann Hesse

#26. All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

Boris Pasternak

#27. For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced

Henry A. Giroux

#28. Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Alan Bennett

#29. A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page.

Leah Cypess

#30. Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.

Jean-Louis Gassee