Famous quotes containing the words ancient, sea and/or kings:
“My companion and I, having a minute’s discussion on some point of ancient history, were amused by the attitude which the Indian, who could not tell what we were talking about, assumed. He constituted himself umpire, and, judging by our air and gesture, he very seriously remarked from time to time, “you beat,” or “he beat.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It was a soft medicine
that came from the sea into my mouth,
moist and plump.
I swallowed.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I give you a wise and discerning mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 3:12.
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