Greek Quotes

• What a scandal to hear nature deprecated in comparison to Greek statues by one who knows neither one nor the other without acknowledging that the smallest part of Nature confounds and amazes those who know most. What statue or cast of it might there be that is not copied from divine nature?

  

  Francisco Goya
  • Nature
  • Greek

• You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Church
  • Greek

• He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Up
  • Greek

• There is yet spirit in him, were it well directed- but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Fire
  • Greek

• A heroic nature is very Greek.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Nature
  • Very
  • Heroic

• Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • God
  • Book
  • Universe

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

  

  Diogenes
  • World
  • Greek

• My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

  

  Arsenio Hall
  • Black
  • Unique
  • Greek

• Greek blood courses through me.

  

  Elena Kampouris
  • Greek

• Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Good
  • Philosophy
  • Tragedy

• There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone - A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Explore

• All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Free
  • Courage
  • Greek

• I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Real
  • Beginning
  • Positive

• They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Greek

• For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Jesus

• For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Adventure
  • Greek

• You had better refuse a favor gracefully, than to grant it clumsily. Manner is all, in everything: it is by manner only that you can please, and consequently rise. All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Good
  • May
  • Air

• I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

  

  Brendan Coyle
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Greek

• A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

  

  Edvard Grieg
  • Clouds
  • Landscape
  • Churches

• Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

  

  George Chakiris
  • Why
  • Failing
  • Restaurants

• Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Good
  • May
  • Painting

• The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • Life
  • Greek

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