I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

- George Santayana

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

- E. O. Wilson

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

- Douglas Jerrold

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

- David Gemmell

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

- David Mitchell

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

- David A. Bednar

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

- Carol P. Christ

The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the '60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.

- Chick Corea

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

- Caroline Paul

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

- Alan Rickman

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

- Cate Blanchett

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

- Arthur Keith

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

- Andrew Motion

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

- Amish Tripathi

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There's the ancient connection right there.

- Ashwin Sanghi

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

- Anne Rice

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

- Arthur Erickson

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

- Andrew Weil

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

- Ambrose Bierce