Greek Quotes

• Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Father
  • Poetry
  • Latin

• I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • American
  • Just

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

  

  Eric Bana
  • School
  • Wish
  • Study

• The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Country
  • Torture
  • Hopelessness

• "Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.

  

  George Michael
  • Greek
  • Real Name
  • Abbreviation

• I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and whenever I tell people I'm Greek, they don't believe me.

  

  Elena Kampouris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Eyes

• Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All different nations, all different people. Different individuals live in the West. There's no such thing as "West" just as there's no such things as "East." What is "East?" Turkey, Iran, China, India, Japan. They are all different. They are all unique.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Person
  • German
  • Nations

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

  

  Lord Acton
  • World
  • Nature
  • Greek

• The Greek word apocalypsis means a “revealing” or an “unveiling.” Scholars have called this view apocalyptic because its proponents believed that God had revealed or unveiled to them the heavenly secrets that could make sense of the realities they were experiencing—many of them nasty and ugly—here on earth. One

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • Believed
  • Realities

• She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • She
  • Dark
  • Color

• It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Voice
  • Accident
  • Flame

• Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

  

  John Berger
  • Time
  • Political
  • Greek

• The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • World
  • Education
  • Doubt

• What's needed is patience and composure. The bank deposits of the Greek people are fully secure. The same applies to the payment of wage and pension - they are also guaranteed.

  

  Alexis Tsipras
  • People
  • Patience
  • Greek

• I worked as a belly dancer at a Greek restaurant senior year in high school.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • School
  • High
  • Senior

• My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

  

  James Cronin
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Greek

• The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster homosexuality whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Children
  • Rest

• If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That's why we're taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we're on target.

  

  George Papandreou
  • Why
  • Pain
  • Greek

• All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Character
  • Think
  • Nice

• We don't claim that there is plenty of money. Greek people are not asking for money. They are asking for work and the ability to make a living.

  

  Alexis Tsipras
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying, eros, eros, eros.

  

  Odysseas Elytis
  • People
  • Truth
  • Death

• When we started Appaloosa, we were going to name it Pegasus because everyone was using Greek names. We filed the name. We paid $300, and they said you cannot use it because it is taken. Pegasus Funds. Then we said Pegasus is kind of a horse. We did not want to be the Unicorn Fund. So we pulled out a horse book.

  

  David Tepper
  • Book
  • Taken
  • Horse

• I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Done
  • Influence
  • Critics

• I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Greek

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