24 Relic Quotes for You to Enjoy

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. Victor Hugo

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People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history. Robert Kiyosaki

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The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. Dinah Sheridan

Drawer Relic Favourite Corsets Still Prized Children Wore Film Railway

What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along. Douglas Brinkley

Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time. Eugene Kennedy

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I'm kind of like a relic from another era. George Hamilton

Kind Relic Like Another Era

Starting in the early 1800s, Southerners in the United States began to defend slavery as their 'peculiar institution,' and northerners didn't mind, since the phrase suggested that chattel bondage was quarantined from the rest of the nation: that it was, or soon would be, a relic of its past and would not define its future. Greg Grandin

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Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience. Henry Waxman

Become Our Relic Memorials Stir Modern Conscience

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history. Iris Chang

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The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines. Jerry Saltz

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What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. John Hodgman

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Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation. Marc Maron

Relic Morality Induced Cultural Surveillance

Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine. Nathan Myhrvold

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A movie like 'Selma' should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we heeded King's words and how far we have advanced. Instead, it is a reminder that the 'American problem' has yet to be solved. Richard Corliss

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Contracts are not a holy relic in football. You can like this attitude or not, but it's the truth. Sometimes you have to think about if it is meaningful to try out a new impulse. Robert Lewandowski

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I always liked the idea in 'Potter' that you don't choose the wand, the wand chooses you, and that relics decide when you're ready to handle them. I'm a cinephile first and a filmmaker second, and it's all swimming in the subconscious. Scott Derrickson

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Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them. Shirley Chisholm

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Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. William Nicholson

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I'm in a museum. I'm a relic. Jose Feliciano

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