Past Glories Quotes

#1. The site still radiated a powerful aura that whispered of past glories too ancient for me to comprehend.

Jim Al-Khalili

#2. We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the Muslims - and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam - that caused our present decay.

Muhammad Asad

#3. To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

John Darnielle

#4. Nothing is cheaper than past glories.

Roger Zelazny

#5. Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

Camille Paglia

#6. Past glories are poor feeding.

Isaac Asimov

#7. Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

Aristotle.

#8. Start your journey where the road ends! Glory lies beyond the ends!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

Brigham Young

#10. Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

Helen Vendler

#11. Oh heart! Oh blood that freezes, blood that burns! Earth's returns For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin! Shut them in, With their triumphs and their glories and the rest! Love is best. "Love Among the Ruins," Robert Browning, 1885

Craig Johnson

#12. I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC.

George Brandis

#13. Another way Christ affects us is by inspiring our gratitude. He left the glories of heaven in order to become our Savior, and when we recognize that sacrifice, we are filled with thankfulness and praise.

Charles Stanley

#14. We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#15. When one door closes another opens. Expect that new door to reveal even greater wonders and glories and surprises. Feel yourself grow with every experience. And look for the reason for it.

Eileen Caddy

#16. It is one of the glories of America that we move to higher levels of awareness.

Reed Hundt

#17. One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Edward Sapir

#18. I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?

Ashwin Sanghi

#19. I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

Davy Crockett

#20. Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

Joseph Barbera

#21. I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

Arthur Ashe

#22. Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

George Clymer

#23. The earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

Augustine Of Hippo

#24. Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.

Ezekiel Hopkins

#25. If he told me something about the glories ahead for the Prince of Arrow I would have trouble restraining myself. If he suggested I might be born in the year of the goat then there would be no restraint!

Mark Lawrence

#26. You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.

Stephen Hawking

#27. Kali has a habit of doing these beautiful works that never translate during the races in the afternoon. They call animals like her morning glories, or horrendous bets. Take your pick.

Mara Dabrishus

#28. Work in me more profound and abiding repentance;
Give me the fullness of godly grief, that trembles and fears, yet ever trust and loves, which is ever powerful, and ever confident;
Grant through the tears of repentance I may see more clearly the brightness and glories of the saving cross.

Arthur Bennett

#29. To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people

Ernest Renan

#30. A wise nation preserves its records, gathers
up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its
greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual
references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.

Joseph Howe

#31. The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.

Margaret MacMillan

#32. The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.

Jill McCorkle

#33. She says she glories in being abandoned

J.M. Barrie

#34. We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

Shirley Franklin

#35. The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

Anthony Storr

#36. Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories.

Thomas Young

#37. The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.

H.G.Wells

#38. I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.

Matsuo Basho

#39. The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.

Alfred Bunn

#40. It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

Winston Churchill

#41. We all can be defeated; to cope with this eternal fact opens great ways for the future glories!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#42. The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.

John Wesley Powell

#43. There are vistas never dreamed of, there are joys never even known, there are glories no past glory ever surpassed. These wait for you but only if you accept my legacy and help bring these things about.

L. Ron Hubbard

#44. It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.

Louis Agassiz

#45. The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

John Podhoretz

#46. But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with.

Ann Coulter

#47. America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

Mark McKinnon

#48. Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is a murderer and a barrier!

Israelmore Ayivor

#49. One of the glories of education is the opportunity to hear the truth come out of a human being with blood in the veins and air in the lungs, and not just off a printed page.

Douglas Wilson

#50. Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself.

Deepak Chopra

#51. Some for the Glories of the World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;

Steven Weinberg

#52. Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

Saint Augustine

#53. A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#54. Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories of Catholicism ... [A Catholic American soldier's reaction to seeing St. Peter's Basilica during WWII.]

James Carroll

#55. My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

Paul Twitchell

#56. As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.

John Aubrey

#57. Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains,

John Sentamu

#58. The Glories of the Possible are Ours.

B. Taylor