Quotes with relic

Quotes 1 till 4 of 4.

• Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

  ― Emily Brontë
  British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
  - +

   0
• In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

  Source: Monetary Reform (1924) , p. 172

  ― John Maynard Keynes
  British economist (1883 - 1946)
  - +

   0
• Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

  ― Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
  - +

   0
• On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.

  Source: A Distant Mirror

  ― Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian (1912 - 1989)
  - +

   0

Subjects in these quotes:

• cannibalized
• (sigismund)
• elizabeth
• specimen
• remarked
• becomes

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations