Ancient Language Quotes

In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.

The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.

Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.

Arca means 'box' or 'wooden' in very old Spanish. It's a ceremonial container where you store jewelry or valuables, an empty space that can become pregnant with whatever music or meaning I give to it.

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.

Latin is an international language.

Ut cum spiritu postrema sacramentum dejuremus," he chanted. "Et hostes ornamenta addent ad ianuam necem." "You just...finished the prophesy,"Rachael stammered. "-An oath to keep with a final breath/And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. How did you-" "I know those lines." Jason winced and put his hands to his temples. "I don't know how, but I KNOW that prophecy." "In Latin, no less," Drew called out. "Handsome AND smart.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

Sanskrit language and the subjects in Sanskrit are both vital alike.

Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.

I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.

I know Sanskrit, which has similarities with Tamil, so it helps me understand the language.

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.