The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece. — James Theodore Bent Copy Share Image
It was always hard to make films in Greece, but making them with friends made it possible. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
“I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa. — Esha Gupta Copy Share Image
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim… If, like those of Rochefoucault,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people,… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
One of the flashpoints of the grand war between Athens and Sparta, a millennium after Helen first caused trouble for the Mediterranean… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have,… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
“If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The outsiders stood always in awe in front of what they had surnamed the Celestial City with Mighty Walls. The great mystery… — Karim El Koussa Copy Share Image
Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
We now have two options: We can commence operations at the Hotspots in Italy and Greece and continue to do nothing -… — Martin Schulz 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
“Do you see those dull stars?" She outlined the formation with her finger. "A pentagram," whispered Scott. "Yes, but not just any… — Katie Mattie Copy Share Image
She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins! — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e. "make sure you follow exactly what we… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
Greece is the only country in the Balkans that does not have territorial designs on its neighbors and wants to live in… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image