When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold. — Marian Dragulescu Copy Share Image
I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia. — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's… — Maurice Greene Copy Share Image
I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I want to see the Parthenon by moonlight.' I had my way. They floodlight it now, to great advantage I am told,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“There were nights for instance, especially in August, where the view of the full moon from the top of the Acropolis hill… — Effrosyni Moschoudi Copy Share Image
“Across the distance, the Acropolis museum cradled within its protective walls its legendary treasures, lulling them to a peaceful sleep under the… — Effrosyni Moschoudi Copy Share Image
“Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I like living in a smaller place, but I like being in big cities, too, like Athens. — Giannis Antetokounmpo Copy Share Image
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew. — Mark Zupan Copy Share Image
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
