Immemorial

The mountains rose, their debris silted up the ocean, the gods took their seats on them and contrived the river, and the India we call immemorial came into being. ❋ Forster, E. M. (1924)

Mostly we're concerned about what this would do to our human rights as a people, that we would not be allowed to continue our way of life that we have known since time immemorial, which is similar to what's happened in the lower 48 with the tribes. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Mostly we are concerned about what this would do to our human rights as a people, that we would not be allowed to continue our way of life since time immemorial, which is similar to what's happened in the lower 48 with the tribes. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It is this inspiring message, which has come down to mankind from time immemorial, which is an inspiration to us all in these dark days when almost all the lights of liberty have been extinguished in South Africa, the land we so dearly hold to our heart. ❋ Unknown (1956)

Completely besotted and brutish in their ignorance, they are incapable of obtaining an honest living, and have supported themselves, from a time which may be called immemorial, by practising petty larceny on an organized plan. ❋ Various (N/A)

Indians were offended at the encroachments made by strangers on lands which they had possessed unmolested for time immemorial, that is nothing wonderful or uncommon. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)

Wiser, stronger, mightier than we were those who shielded us in the first years; who went about among us renewing memory, whispering in our hearts the message of the meaning of life, recalling the immemorial endeavor of the spirit for freedom, knowledge, mastery. ❋ George William Russell (1901)

Haven't we always just liked getting absolutely off our tits since time immemorial, which is why the early drinking theory doesn't work over here like it supposedly does in other countries? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Time "immemorial" is in fact remembered well by Jews and it predates the conquest of the middle east by the Arabs who were indigenous to the Arabian peninsula. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Jews had in fact been a presence throughout the middle east, from a time "immemorial" as no Arab could have been. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In early nineteenth-century England, they were opposed by a conservative coalition that crossed class lines, the commoners having been joined in the defense of their "immemorial" enjoyments by the traditionalists among the gentry, especially the rural gentry not yet infected with evangelical piety, sentimental humanitarianism, and the dogma of enterprise. ❋ Lasch, Christopher (1977)

He also began at Rome a canonical process to obtain approval of the "immemorial" veneration of the Blessed Lidwina of Schiedam. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

As boys, they had had to perform their ship's duty, and, in addition, by immemorial sea custom, they had had to be the slaves of the ordinary and able-bodied seamen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The struggle may assume new forms, but the issue is the immemorial one, -- an effort of the producers to obtain an increasing measure of the wealth that flows from their production. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ah Kim, thirty-seven years of age, fat and a bachelor, really did want a wife, especially a small-footed wife; for, China born and reared, the immemorial small-footed female had been deeply impressed into his fantasy of woman. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From time immemorial, depots have ruled the Chinese people to fill their pockets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From time immemorial, pigs have been kept as domestic animals. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

This was due to her immemorial policy of isolation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ah Kim's house, as he thoroughly knew, and kow-tow to his mother and be slave to her in the immemorial Chinese way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Three slouching, ambling monsters of bears they were, and at sight of them Michael bristled and uttered the lowest of growls; for he knew them, out of his heredity (as a domestic cow knows her first wolf), as immemorial enemies from the wild. ❋ Unknown (2010)