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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. - Terry Pratchett

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. Terry Pratchett

Cats, Pet, Forgotten, Gods, Were, Times

Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story. Deborah Wiles

Alone, Art, Book, Together, Picture

Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it. Bruce Lipton

Change, Wisdom, Time, Power, People

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. H. P. Lovecraft

Nature, Dreams, Memories, Time, Ocean

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. George H. W. Bush

Freedom, Man, Tree, Heart, Day, World

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. Nikola Tesla

Place, Civilization, Labor, Will, Robot

We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there. Frank Delaney

Identity, Belong, Rivers, Us, Stories

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. Werner Herzog

Luck, Tragedy, You, Bad, Sometimes, Own

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up. Andrew J. Bernstein

Family, Life, Success, Nature, Stress

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Science, World, Transformation, Know

One of my favourite things to think about is, if you could be invisible and go back in time, where would you go? I've always said ancient Egypt. I would love to see them building the pyramids, and I've always had a real fascination with medieval time and monarchy in medieval times. Elizabeth Debicki

Love, Time, Think, Building, You, Back

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. Tom Hiddleston

Humility, Kings, Drama, Heroes, Danger

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy. James Monroe

Growth, History, Happy, People, Look

'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that. Will Hobbs

Beauty, Home, Character, Sea, Strong

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. Ray Bradbury

Great, Book, Better, Egypt, Smell, New

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods. Menachem Begin

Freedom, Peace, People, Ideas, Movement

It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk. Cheryl Hayashi

Life, My Life, Spider, Rest, Me, Sharing

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. Guru Nanak

Man, Child, I Am, Young Man, Young, Nor

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? Orson F. Whitney

History, Wisdom, Power, Past, Honor

As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy. Martha Beck

Light, Culture, Problems, Tragedy, Feel

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme. John Carpenter

Evil, Theme, Us, Hiding, Among

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth. Thales

God, Birth, Things, Most, All Things, He

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. Enid Bagnold

Marriage, Child, Wedding, Criticism

I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer. W. Bruce Cameron

Positive, Home, Art, Peace, Beer, Energy

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. Vladimir Lenin

Freedom, Society, Always, Slave, Same

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. Robert Wilson

Art, Look, Egypt, Back

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