Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
After watching the Athens Paralympics in 2004, I looked at the swimmers and thought, that's cool. I want to do that. — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
As a 12-year-old when I won my first gold in Athens, I wanted people to know what the Paralympic games were. — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Athens is an amazing city for creativity. I bought a house there. A little, tiny place. — Cindy Wilson Copy Share Image
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather… — Alcuin Copy Share Image
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Every time I go to Athens, it's not just a trip down memory lane; there's some surprise. I always meet somebody new,… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field,… — Paul Alkazraji Copy Share Image
Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the… — Robert South Copy Share Image
The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there.… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“debatable today, as the structure could house the entire population of Athens, but could do nothing to protect their resources or withstand… — Tom Simek Copy Share Image
When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“1. Bangladesh… In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the heavy, hot fragrance of summer, and of the clean salty smell of the sea, there was the… — Betty Wason Copy Share Image
