Quotes About Ancient Babylon

#1. The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this
punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation
of the hands.

L. M. Boyd

#2. The mother tongue of politicians is that of ancient Babylon: a language designed to severely limit discourse within a tower of praise to elitism, a language carried on breath's reeking of the fecal matter from their paymasters

Dean Cavanagh

#3. Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime.

Neil MacGregor

#4. Oh shit did you just dis the feminine gender
I'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blender
You think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhyme
But I got flow like Ghostbusters got slime
Objectify women and it's fuckin' on
You'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon.

John Green

#5. Don't stop till you can say 'DAMN I look good' on the way out of the house.

Lynne Russell

#6. She'd seen the spark in his fledgling soul, and no one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him.

Paul Auster

#7. The real magic of the Sinspire was woven from its capricious exclusivity; deny something to enough people and sooner or later it will grow a mystique as thick as fog.

Scott Lynch

#8. Black, like white, is the best color!

Karl Lagerfeld

#9. A wealthy man in ancient Egypt would never have dreamed of solving a relationship crisis by taking his wife on holiday to Babylon. Instead, he might have built for her the sumptuous tomb she had always wanted.

Yuval Noah Harari

#10. I like Barack Obama.

Bobby Seale

#11. We must learn to soundproof the heart against the intruding noises of the public world in order to hear what God has to say.

Gordon MacDonald

#12. When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

Steven Yeun

#14. The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Jaggi Vasudev

#15. I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.

John Grogan