Quotes About Olden Times

#1. A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

Michael Ende

#2. I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times & intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Gustave Courbet

#3. In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed - in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.

Eliphas Levi

#4. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

Helen Rowland

#5. Many young people are still driven to art, as in olden times. Most of them are driven by their parents, who know nothing about art - only that it exists.

Elfriede Jelinek

#6. In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be closer to the source of things than trade or manufacturing, and the farmer was said to be "the cupbearer of the gods." He was always able to get by somehow or other and have enough to eat.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#7. In olden times, when wishing still helped...."
- The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Jack D. Zipes

#8. In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,
deceit sugar-coated.

Hugh Latimer

#9. I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

Kara Swisher

#10. The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

A.W. Tozer

#11. Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#12. In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.

Mark Zuckerberg

#13. The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.

Patrick Ness

#14. What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.

Trudi Canavan

#15. I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it.

Kirk Douglas

#16. Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.

Albert Payson Terhune

#17. Day will move on and live his life. So will I. We will be okay. Someday, perhaps in the far and distant future, we'll find each other again.

Marie Lu

#18. You are so great at creative solutions," he says, still chuckling. "They usually involve ripping, tearing, kicking, or stabbing, but they're creative.

Susan Ee

#19. I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.

Thomas A. Edison

#20. I was thinking this was a great teaching moment, where they'd finally come to see that even something teeny-tiny can be big enough.

Dee Williams