If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you… — George Will Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued… — Kerri Walsh Copy Share Image
So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to… — Gary Calamar Copy Share Image
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden… — Gianluca Basile Copy Share Image
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens.… — Jonathan Brown Copy Share Image
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the… — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function… — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it… — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there… — Vijender Singh Copy Share Image
I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic… — George Michael Copy Share Image
The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have… — Laure Manaudou Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and… — Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis Copy Share Image
To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and… — Plato Copy Share Image
We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am honored to be to be part of the biggest sports event in the world. The fact that the Games are… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek.… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
