Top 19 Quotes About Babylonians
#1. He thought the ancient Babylonians knew the truth of existence, knew things that were lost later on. Lost or destroyed. Not just the usual stuff about wisdom.
Jonathan Aycliffe
#2. The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
Elon Musk
#3. By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
James Henry Breasted
#4. There was a lot about the Babylonians, how their religion was the original, the most authentic, how their gods were symbols for another reality, that if one could rediscover their rituals and use them as they were meant to be used, one could gain enlightenment.
Jonathan Aycliffe
#5. Cyrus became lord of that great realm. His first act was to free all the peoples held in captivity by the Babylonians. Among them were the Jews, who went home to Jerusalem
E.H. Gombrich
#6. Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#7. 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.
Sam Harris
#8. Egyptians used carved sky boats as symbols of the Moon and the Babylonians called the Moon the Boat of Light.
Rachel Patterson
#9. Since before even the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians, human beings used the stars and seasons to track time and record their most important moments. Cesium severed that link with the heavens, effaced it just as surely as urban streetlamps blot out constellations.
Sam Kean
#10. I don't need to be famous. I'm not that ambitious. At this point, if I'm not sucked in, I'm never going to get sucked in. Being the so-called hot girl, I disconnect from that. It's not that deep.
Jessica Alba
#11. Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#12. Man is a victim of dope
In the incurable form of hope!
Ogden Nash
#13. In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.
Lauren DeStefano
#14. Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.
George Whitefield
#15. We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
Zubin Mehta
#17. You can't really make a deal until you've found an opportunity, and you can't really know if it's an opportunity until you understand value.
Gary Keller
#18. Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.
Narendra Modi
#19. And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em.
Tupac Shakur