Old World Quotes - Page 4

• We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Men, Tails

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6833, Delphi Classics

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• Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Mean, Power, Secret

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• I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Sweet, World

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• Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Character, Years

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.9, A&C Black

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• I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

  Julian Fellowes

  Mean, World, Truth Is

  "Julian Fellowes On The Rules Of 'Downton'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 11, 2012.

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• The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Water, Energy, Climate

  "Sacred Economics". Book by Charles Eisenstein, 2011.

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• We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Love Is, Men

  "Loving Your Enemies". Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 1957.

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• But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this is the only way as our eyes look to the future. As we look out across the years and across the generations, let us develop and move right here. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Moving, Eye

  "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Moving, Nwo, America

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• I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  World, Faces, Facts

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.44, Xist Publishing

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• In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

  Charles Kendall Adams

  Heart, Fire, World

  Charles Kendall Adams (1892). “Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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• After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, World, Politics

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Writing, Intimate Conversation, Phones

  "Couple of the Moment: Kimora & Djimon" by Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 14, 2008.

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• Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Kings, Fall, Pieces

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.172, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

  Jared Diamond

  Native American, Epidemics, Giving

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• Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Lovely, Glad To Be Alive, World

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1857, e-artnow

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• The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Media, World

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

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• You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thinking, Race, Two

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.194, Penguin

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• So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old," in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe.

  Tim Wise

  Children, Kids, Color

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• I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

  Jeannette Walls

  Thinking, Rushing, Feelings

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Government, Self, Data

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.444, Macmillan

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• Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't forget to remember me.

  Carrie Underwood

  Important, World, Remember

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• My grandfather always told me, You know youre American first, but youre a Greek-American, which makes you a better American. It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Sweet, Greek, Grandfather

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• Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

  Neil Young

  Faith, Bridges, World

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• The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

  Jane Jacobs

  World, Modernism, Notion

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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