Greek Quotes

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

Henry David Thoreau
- Up
- 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

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
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Olympia Dukakis
- Mother
- Night
- Sleep
Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.

Marge Piercy
- Writing
- Mother
- Memory
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
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.

Joanne Rowling
- Think
- Parents
- Name
My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.

James Costos
- Work
- Family
- Father