Greek Quotes

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?