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

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

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, Together, Picture, Drawing

We reach a secondary road and - here comes the bonus - we pass the Temple of Neptune and Cerene, at Paestum, both looking beautiful in the sunlight. Strung from the Doric columns are lines of soldiers' washing. At last they had been put to practical use. If only the ancient Greeks had known. Spike Milligan

Beautiful, Soldiers, Looking, Road, Only

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

Identity, Us, Belong, Rivers, Take

In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule. Sarah Parcak

Time, Past, Temple, House, Everything

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. Wendell Berry

Hope, Responsibility, Care, Earth, Only

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, You, Bad, Sometimes, Bad Luck, Own

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

'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, Sea, Home, Character, Looking

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

Life, Family, Nature, Success, Money

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

Wisdom, History, Power, Past, Honor

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty, World, Sadness, Understand, New

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Marilyn French

Love, Love Is, Yourself, Power, Mind

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, Lovers, Heroes

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

History, Growth, Happy, People, Look

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

Heart, Freedom, Man, Day, Tree, World

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Mary Oliver

Poetry, Wilderness, Earth, Arts, Within

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

Wisdom, Change, Time, Power, People

You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp. Tecumseh

Sleep, You, Security, Will, Fast, Your

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

Man, I Am, Child, Young, Caste, Any

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

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, You, Building, Back

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride. Charles Godfrey Leland

Light, Clouds, Wind, Storm, Bride, Trees

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness. Dewitt Bodeen

Lie, World, Fog, Sin, Places, Low

No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. Gene Roddenberry

Work, Work Hard, Hard, Human, Clever

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