Greek Quotes

• They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes, was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia.

  

  Tacitus
  • Father
  • Greek

• 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.

  

  Jane Haddam
  • Art
  • Greek

• 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

• 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

• Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different peoples who have settled there: Arabs, Greeks, Normans, the Swedes. That has made us different from others. We exaggerate, we overdo. We love Greek tragedy. We cry, we fight, sometimes for nothing.

  

  Marcello Giordani
  • Different
  • History
  • Blessed

• I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • God
  • Greek

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

  

  Curt Flood
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old: it set my life on a different path. Next, I read 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy, then 'The Silmarillion' and Homers 'The Odyssey' and every Greek/Roman/Viking myth book I could get my hands on. Pretty heavy reading for a 12 year old.

  

  Conan Stevens
  • Life
  • Different
  • Book

• I have friends who read my books in Greek.

  

  Brian Lumley
  • Friends
  • Greek

• In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Courage
  • Literature
  • Greek

• I've got my huge Greek family. I mean, I don't know how many cousins I have - I can't even keep track. There are just so many of us, and we love all Greek food - we have Greek night every Sunday night.

  

  Elena Kampouris
  • Family
  • Night
  • Food

• What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

  

  Anne Carson
  • World
  • Words
  • Small

• I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Freedom

• Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Jesus
  • Greek

• We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

  

  Penelope Lively
  • Bible
  • Greek

• The Greek people do not want to exit the euro. And I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay in the euro zone.

  

  George Papandreou
  • People
  • Believe
  • Greek

• The Bible has entered much of my work as have Latin and Greek mythology and verse.

  

  Dermot Healy
  • Work
  • Bible
  • Latin

• I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

  

  George Papandreou
  • People
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.

  

  John Rocco
  • Different
  • Question
  • Painting

• Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Thinking
  • Career
  • Strong

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

  

  George Michael
  • Greek
  • Real Name
  • Abbreviation

• 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?

  

  Melina Mercouri
  • Greek

• I think the Greek people, although it is difficult and challenging and the politics of it I know are not good, should appreciate the fact that in this global economy, the Greek economy was going to have to go through some structural reforms.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Greek

• My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.

  

  Jon Katz
  • Life
  • Greek

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