John Lothrop Motley Quote

As I studied the e-mail from Glenn Milne, I knew just how ancient the U-shaped structure [found a few kilometers away from the Indian coast] really might be - at least 11,000 years old. That's 6000 ye...

If we impose on a map of the earth a 'world grid' with Giza (not Greenwich) as its prime meridian, then hidden relationships become immediately apparent between sites that previously seemed to be on a...

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war sha...

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated...

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

Soldiers forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.