Phoenicians Alphabet Quotes & Sayings

The biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them. — Oprah Winfrey

He said he didn't even exist without you. That he was an empty vessel and that you filled him and owned him until he didn't know where he ended and you began. — Lynetta Halat

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. — Betty White

Losing isn't as bad as not fighting at all. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Seek happiness now within you. Don't look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile. — Sal Martinez

The Phoenicians are also credited with the first alphabet. Chinese and Egyptian languages used pictographs, drawings depicting objects or concepts. Babylonian, which became the international language in the Middle East, also — Mark Kurlansky

Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won, and what a fine thing it was to be victorious. "Victorious and dead," some muttered, "is a poor sort of victory. — M.L. Stedman

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past. — Mason Cooley

To have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing. — Meg Wolitzer

Solitude awakes the soul to spiritual realms. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The only plan I have is to not do anything I don't want to do - and to never work just for money. — Chris Rock

These Phoenicians who came with Cadmus and of whom the Gephyraeans were a part brought with them to Hellas, among many other kinds of learning, the alphabet, which had been unknown before this, I think, to the Greeks. As time went on the sound and the form of the letters were changed. At this time the Greeks who were settled around them were for the most part Ionians, and after being taught the letters by the Phoenicians, they used them with a few changes of form. In so doing, they gave to these characters the name of Phoenician, as was quite fair seeing that the Phoenicians had brought them into Greece.
(5-58-59) — Herodotus