Greece Quotes · Page 5

Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus

— Rick Riordan

Greece's debt is going to be a function of a lot of factors down the road.

— Charles Dallara

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

— Evangelos Venizelos

Greece is a pillar of peace and security in a region where stabilization is on the growth.

— Alexis Tsipras

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

— Joe Bonamassa

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

— Victor Hugo

Everyone should be proud of where they come from. It's easy to love Greece, though.

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

The benefit of coming to a place like Greece and winning is priceless for your development.

— John McGinn

In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only…

— Lucas Papademos

A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until,…

— Seth Klarman

“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.” Patricia Briggs.”

— Demetra Angelis Foustanellas

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

— Mary Stewart

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it…

— James Theodore Bent

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted…

— George Papandreou

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for…

— Budd Schulberg

Greece's unprecedented fiscal effort, which was more than planned, has triggered much larger contractions of economic activity and the tax base than…

— Charles Dallara

I would describe that [friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras] as a utilitarian friendship. At the time, his country was facing…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the…

— Wolfgang Schauble

In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively…

— Warren MacKenzie

Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact…

— Lucas Papademos

Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of…

— Steve Hanke

I was playing a gig in Greece in September 2003 and this guy walks up to me and says, 'Hey Tiesto I…

— Tiesto

I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be…

— Tyler Cowen

Ever since I left Greece more than two decades ago, it has been my dream to return and perform at the Acropolis.…

— Yanni

“I left them to it, the pointing of fingers on maps, the tracing of mountain villages, the tracks and contours on maps…

— Daphne du Maurier

The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of…

— Arthur Demarest

“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was…

— Milan Kundera

To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when…

— Rebecca Goldstein

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their…

— Carl Sagan

The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea.…

— Orestes Brownson

It is ridiculous to believe that Greece might be taking in one million migrants, registering them, then giving refuge to those who…

— Paolo Gentiloni

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

— Bertrand Russell

The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.

— Henry Miller

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

— George Bernard Shaw

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.

— Michael Hudson

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

— Homer

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

— William Cowper

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

— Nia Vardalos

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley