Quotes About Ancient Sites

#1. I am one of many people documenting damage and looting at ancient sites from space - it is such a crucial tool.

Sarah Parcak

#2. I am part of a network of people monitoring what's happening at ancient sites in Iraq and Syria - from space. We can see clearly the destruction.

Sarah Parcak

#3. That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites.

Sarah Parcak

#4. I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to map them and locate them quickly is from satellites.

Sarah Parcak

#5. Philosophy did not find Plato already a nobleman ; it made him one.

Seneca.

#6. 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

#7. What if Hiram Bingham had the technology to find hundreds of other archaeological sites at the same time and create entire 3-D maps of the ancient landscape accurate to within a few inches?

Sarah Parcak

#8. On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

Barack Obama

#9. What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

Terry Pratchett

#10. I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful.

Nicolas Cage

#11. How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

Joan Of Arc

#12. Everybody else is calling this 'Reggie's Team' and that's fine with me. It's just another challenge I have to face, and I look forward to it.

Reggie Lewis

#13. There are so many previously unknown sites and structures all over the world. And I think most importantly what satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the world.

Sarah Parcak

#14. Smiles can be deadlier than pistols, if used correctly.

Suzanne Enoch

#15. Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

David Christian

#16. No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realize. This transition is where tech companies go to die.

Jim Balsillie

#17. What satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the world ... It's the most exciting time in history to be an archaeologist.

Sarah Parcak

#18. It was really difficult to believe you had a right to argue when you were confronted by wise-looking men telling you that you did not.

Sage Blackwood

#19. We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

Robert Jordan

#20. I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

Oscar Levant

#21. Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.

Pierre Trudeau

#22. What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Nancy Grace