Top 18 Ancient Times Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ancient Times Quotes from famous people such as Adrienne Mayor, David Bohm, Vladimir Putin, Shinichiro Watanabe, Joseph B. Wirthlin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Male buerkitshi are certainly more common than females

Male buerkitshi are certainly more common than females today, although eagle hunting has always been open to interested girls. Archaeology suggests that eagle huntresses were probably more common in ancient times.
Adrienne Mayor
Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.
David Bohm
Spying has always gone on since ancient times.
Vladimir Putin
National borders have always been arbitrarily drawn by people, and in ancient times there was a lot of exchange of people and culture with the continent.
Shinichiro Watanabe
Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.
John Ortberg
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Ovid
As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.
Angus Deaton
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
In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.
Amish Tripathi
Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan’s existence as a country.
Daisaku Ikeda
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
Isabel Allende
In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than the natural need of humanity or of any living being.
Lobsang Tenzin
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Stephen Leacock
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
Giraldus Cambrensis
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors’ works have survived even in part.
Richard Stallman
‘Elixir’ means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.
Shakira
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett