Quotes About Phoenicians

#1. All family histories, personal histories,are as sketchy and unreliable as histories of the Phoenicians, it seems to me. We should note everything down, fill in the wide gaps if we can. Which is why I am writing this my darlings.

William Boyd

#2. The Phoenicians are also credited with the first alphabet. Chinese and Egyptian languages used pictographs, drawings depicting objects or concepts. Babylonian, which became the international language in the Middle East, also

Mark Kurlansky

#3. May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. The Phoenicians are entitled to be commemorated in history by the side of the Hellenic and Latin nations; but their case affords a fresh proof, and perhaps the strongest proof of all, that the development of national energies in antiquity was of a one-sided character.

Theodor Mommsen

#5. Some say these people were Phoenicians, but that is incorrect; they were older than the Phoenicians being Atlanteans,

Dion Fortune

#6. During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians.

Theodor Mommsen

#7. The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came into contact, was wholly wanting in the Phoenicians.

Theodor Mommsen

#8. The daughter is the goddess, separately or together, of Infatuation, Mischief, Delusion and Blind Folly, rendering her victims "incapable of rational choice" and blind to distinctions of morality and expedience.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#9. Focus on a specific intention ... A goal is often fueled by fear ... An intention is fueled by a sense of purpose.

Robert G. Allen

#10. If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

Jerry Saltz

#11. I declare, it is like some other part of me made up some rules about happiness and I just went along with them without thinking. My heart is lightened so much that I am amazed at how sad I felt for so long.

Nancy E. Turner

#12. It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same

Irvine Welsh

#13. During the day he had not trusted enough, and had worn himself out with pointless scurryings.

Larry McMurtry

#14. Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.

Sara Maitland

#15. When you take into account ebooks and Kindles and such, we're doing pretty good.

Deborah Meyler

#16. Yet, as should become obvious, genocidal events have been common enough to suggest that they cannot be explained as some kind of deviant behavior. On the contrary, given the right circumstances, normal human beings are all too ready to kill by category.

Daniel Chirot

#17. Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

Shane Claiborne

#18. Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

Wilferd Peterson

#19. Look, Adam said. He rubbed a finger over the dust of the back window. Next to a Blink-182 sticker was an Aglionby decal.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#21. The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#22. Believing in your standards for a square deal, even when there's no way to get it, is what allows you to create boundaries and take independent action.

Michael I. Bennett